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1 RECOMMENDED by 18 people for USB
SmartDisk (FDUSB-TM) (FDUSB-TM) External Floppy Drive
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$35.00 Est. at Amazon
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  1. from www.amazon.com
    5.0 Stars now that floppy drives are becoming an endangered species -- and an expensive one, with nyc stores asking $40 and up for an external drive -- it's handy to have a compact and inexpensive usb drive
  2. from www.amazon.com
    4.0 Stars this drive is compact and works well, but be aware that it includes a usb connection cord.
  3. from vanderjed, www.shopping.com
    1.0 Star pros: compact cons: unable to install without windows xp cd with service pack 1 review: smartdisk claims that its usb drive needs no drivers or any other software-just plug it in and it's ready
  4. from lt.dell.com
    5.0 Stars proseasy plug and play, works great with vista, doesn't cost an arm and leg consnone share this review: review?2?for?1.44 mb external usb floppy drive - titanium edition
  5. from lt.dell.com
    5.0 Stars share this review: review?7?for?1.44 mb external usb floppy drive - titanium edition overall: 5 [ratingof] 5 ease of installation: 5 [ratingof] 5 compatibility:
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2 RECOMMENDED by 11 people for USB
Targus Slimline USB External Floppy Drive (PA905U) (PA905U) External Floppy Drive
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$54.00 Est. at Amazon
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  1. from www.amazon.com
    4.0 Stars it consists of the drive and a special cable that plugs into two usb ports to draw the power necessary to operate, quite clever imho.
  2. from www.amazon.com
    4.0 Stars it works very well, but the usb connectors can come out easily if you move your laptop around.
  3. from www.amazon.com
    5.0 Stars runs entirely on usb power.
  4. from www.amazon.com
    5.0 Stars powered by usb connection making a separate ac dongle a thing of the past.
  5. from www.amazon.com
    5.0 Stars it gets its power from the usb ports so the whole thing is portable.
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3 RECOMMENDED by 5 people for USB
Teac FD-05PUB (FD05PUBKITTII) External Floppy Drive
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$51.00 Est. at Amazon
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  1. from lt.dell.com
    5.0 Stars had no hassles using it with xp or 98se.my bois supports usb bootable devices and this drive had no problems doing that in both oses .
  2. from www.amazon.com
    4.0 Stars for me, and i read it in other places, teac seems to be to only usb floppy that continues to work when loading an operating system on a laptop with sata hard drive.
  3. from www.amazon.com
    5.0 Stars enter the teac usb floppy drive.
  4. from www.amazon.com
    5.0 Stars the diamond: this usb drive allows for f6 driver install
  5. from www.amazon.com
    5.0 Stars it simply plugs into your computer via a usb cable thats hard-wired right to the disk drive.
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4 RECOMMENDED by 12 people for USB
Sabrent (MPT-UFDB) (MPT-UFDB) External Floppy Drive
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$24.00 Est. at Amazon
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  1. from www.amazon.com
    4.0 Stars this little disk drive is instantly recognized by any computer; just plug it into any usb port.
  2. from www.amazon.com
    5.0 Stars i plugged the drive into the usb port and vista automatically recognized the drive, automatically set up the drivers, and it was ready to use.
  3. from www.amazon.com
    3.0 Stars this is the first usb floppy drive i've purchased, so i don't know how others may compare.
  4. from www.amazon.com
    3.0 Stars i need to boot to a floppy on occassion, so bought this since newer computers tend to not ship anymore with floppy drives but support usb floppy drive boot in the bios.
  5. from www.amazon.com
    1.0 Star every usb port i put it in, it said that there was a problem with the device.
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5 RECOMMENDED by 9 people for USB
LaCie (706018X10) (10 Pack) (706018X10) External Floppy Drive
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$46.00 Est. at Amazon
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  1. from www.amazon.com
    5.0 Stars received on fri..with winxp(no driver req'd), i plugged in to usb and computer recognized it and immediatly read floppy to desired application.worth the money.only thing was the shipping box was
  2. from www.amazon.com
    5.0 Stars i ordered the lacie 706081 usb ext floppy disk drive after comparing it to several others.
  3. from www.amazon.com
    2.0 Stars works with my dell latitude xp laptop and i can read/write onto floppy disk but does not work with my dell dockingstation nor can i boot properly with the floppy drive attached to my laptop usb port.
  4. from www.amazon.com
    5.0 Stars be aware that it's a "high power" usb device so a bus-powered usb port may not have enough power to support it.
  5. from www.amazon.com
    5.0 Stars usb makes it sweet.
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