


I was confused at first why this was mentioned because it looks like it's just a slimline laptop drive. I saw these models commonly mentioned:ĭELL FDDM-101: This one seems like the cheapest and easiest option. My second option that I saw was many people recommending some older models before all of these cheap clones exploded everywhere, but they haven't been made for years so I would have to rely on getting them used somewhere, and it's not clear if they also support any of this. I originally thought that I could just buy one of those hundreds of cheap USB Floppy drives on Amazon and be done with it, but now I am hearing that they are pretty poor in terms of what they support and most will pretty much only read standard 1.44 disks as if they were a USB drive and that's it.Īre there any of those that support both 1.44 and 720? Can I even use these to make an image from a floppy disk, or even write an image to a floppy disk, or are these purely designed for just reading data off your old 1.44 floppies and nothing else? I have been trying to figure out what to do in terms of being able to read/write my old floppy disks on newer systems as well as use said drive to image and create boot disks for my older systems.
