YEY External USB 3.5-inch USB Floppy Disk Reader 1.44 MB FDD Portable Floppy Disk for PC Laptops Windows/XP/7/8/10/11 Plug and Play (Black)

Simply unwrapped it, plugged into a port, opened up finder on my MacBook Air, and was able to access the old 3 1/2 floppy disks I found. While yes there is noise but if you remember anything back in the day of using floppies they all made noise. It actually indicates it is working correctly. Fast delivery too, as I received it a couple of days sooner. Truly was plug-n-play. I didn't have to reload or unplug and replug back in. All I had to do was allow it some seconds to read the disk and it loaded all the files just find. Highly recommend.

this worked fine to read my old floppies on both a windows 11 pc and recent macbook

First off, mechanically this drive works relatively fine. It can read most floppies without issue and is *generally* capable of writing to them. I bought this to make imaging some floppies for older (90s era) machines. USB has some serious limitations in this regard and is no substitute for a bus connected floppy on an older machine. You will likely hit write errors trying to copy certain floppy images and things like XDF are literally impossible.So if you wanted some limited floppy capability on a modern machine, this is fine. You can read old floppies fine and pull data off generally speaking with no issue. Writing is far far more inconsistent largely based on USB floppy considerations.

I was asked to recover info from 30+ FDDs by a friend. Did have old 3.5 & 5.25 drives in storage, but not a MB to run them, so ordered this.The Yeh looks great out of the box. The case is plastic, but heavy & solid with rounded corners and chamfered edges. Cable is thick, has strain relief at case and includes both attached USB A & C plugs instead of adapter that can be lost. Inside is a tried & true Teac mechanism. Inserting/removing a FDD is smooth & solid. In operation, it clacks & whirs, but that is what FDD drives always did.Yeh was recognized by Win 10/11 on everything from USB 2.0 to 3.2. File Explorer listed as "A" and as Teac FDD in Device Manager.That said, my project had to be put on hold. Turns out all the disks were 2-DD or 2-HD from the 90s. They all were recognized, but none usable. A few contained programs unsupported since DOS or Windows 95. The rest with the important docs & pics had been compressed with either Dblspace or Drvspace - also unreadable by any modern OS except for single visible READTHIS.txt file.Will keep this excellent drive, but wait for some snow days to play with a VM/DOS 6.22/Drvspace machine and try again.

I spent two hours trouble shooting, uninstalling, installing, disabling, enabling, restarting, standing on one foot with my tongue sticking out and even spinning in circles chanting. Still doesn't work.

Update 11-10-24: I just tried using a FUJIFILM 2HD MAC disk (a disk formatted for use only on Mac computers) and it failed to read because it said the format was incorrect. I just realized this adapter only reads IBM (formatted for Windows OS) type disks. I hope other buyers are aware of this. All the IBM type disks I inserted read everything fine (except some old fonts but otherwise normal). Tbh I think it's funny that my Windows OS couldn't recognize the Windows OS floppy disks but my Macbook reads everything fine except for the Mac formatted disks... lmao------I initially thought this adapter was best suited for use with Windows OS, from XP and above. I have a MacBook Pro with a virtual machine (Parallels) that enables me to use Windows as a virtual machine. Every time I want to use any type of Windows compatible software, I simply start up Parallels and or open a file with a Windows based app (Parallels will start automatically). I've never run into any software or hardware compatibility issues previously. I plugged in the VEY adapter with USB, opened Parallels and Windows started, then looked for the adapter. It was listed as a drive called W with a big question mark. I put in the floppy disk, and was unable to open it -- there was still a big question mark listed atop the W drive. So I stopped Parallels, closing Windows. My MacBook automatically recognized the adapter with its usual icon for unidentified new flash drives. I was able to open all the files on my 2004 era 3.5 mm floppy disks very easily. The only issue I encountered was that some if the old fonts in Word from 2004 were not recognized by the new version of Word (which substituted Times New Roman for me). But there were no files that couldn't be read at all. I'm not sure what to say about this adapter. It really does work well, but tbh I'm not sure I'd 100% trust it on Windows. I mean, I've literally used Windows as a virtual machine (with various updates and new laptops, ofc) on my MacBook since around 2009 without any issues. But suddenly I can't use this adapter with it, which seems strange and maybe sketchy? My advice is to simply use this adapter with MacBooks but don't expect it to have zero compatibility issues with Windows. The adapter came with a long list if troubleshooting tips for Windows operating systems. To me that in and of itself is lind of a red flag! Which, tbh, is also why I prefer Apple OS to Windows since the vast majority of errors and software compatibility issues I've had, in my 30+ years of using computers since the 1990s, have been associated with Windows OS.

Worked perfect, got my old pics off the floppies and will pass on to somebody else that might have a need.

All the old family photos were saved onto floppy disks so I bought this reader to use on my MacBook laptop. This thing worked great on floppy disks that haven’t seen the light of day since 2003. No issues whatsoever! Thank goodness!