Best Floppy Drives for Disks

since i still use floppy disks it is handy to move from computer to computer.

pros: needs no power source or drivers cons: why don't people give up their floppy disks?

conssome brands of disks require formatting eventhough they claim to be formatted.

though i don't use floppy disks anymore there are people that still have older pcs that i need to give info to.

at my parents house, there was an overabundance of 1.4mb floppy disks, with stuff from who knows how long ago sitting on those disks collecting dust.

i have many of the disks i still wanted to use.

i just needed a floppy to create floppy disks for work on a pc from a mac.

we have an older industrial control device at work that records data to floppy disks.

i had some old programs on floppy disks that i wanted to reinstall on a dell 4700 computer with windows xp.

drive does not read floppy disks.

will not format disks and requires multiple attempts for reading and writing to disk.

update: i haven't had any trouble with recently purchased disks.

this external drive is a real lifesaver in permitting me to access 3-1/2" disks.

it refused to recognize known good disks, whether blank or containing data, and asked to format.

i was able to read, write, and format floppy disks in windows xp pro (32 bit) and windows vista ultimate (64 bit) environments.