External Floppy Drive Win 95/98 compatible

[greenuser]

I need an external floopy disc drive to read 3.5" discs formatted in W-95;98. Currently running Win 7. Bought a Sabrent model SBT-UFDB but doesn't work with W 95. Help?

 

[kanewolf]

Is the media 360KB, 720KB or 1.44MB ? I don't think that disks were formatted differently under W98. It may be that the disk drive can't read anything except 1.44MB disks....

 

[ex_bubblehead]

The format used by Windows 95 IS different than that used by later versions of Windows: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/140060

 

[kanewolf]

Learn somthin' new... Shows how long since I cared about floppies .... After reading the article that @ex_bubblehead points to, it seems that the older versions of Windows were incomplete if you formatted the disks. Although it sounds like pre-formatted media didn't have that problem. BUT who knows how many times those floppies were reformatted .... Hmm.... The workaround does NOT sound like fun...

 

[greenuser]

Is the media 360KB, 720KB or 1.44MB ? I don't think that disks were formatted differently under W98. It may be that the disk drive can't read anything except 1.44MB disks....

 

[greenuser]

Not solved yet, but great ideas. Discs are preformatted, 1.44, never reformatted.