USB Floppy Drive

[Haze]

Hi all

So some of you might have seen my retro game thread, Facebook bargain. I have got Doom 1 and 2 of floppy, so i wanted to check they are still working, i purchased a USB floppy drive, but it does not recognize them, and i tried some normal floppy disks, and no joy, anything i might be missing? windows can see the drive ok, not sure what else to try, will go down my parents Sat and dig through the garage for an old pc, but i dont think i will have a vga monitor

 

[Haze]

Possibly a stupid question but does the USB drive have a power connector as well as USB? If so, have you plugged in a supply as well as the USB lead?

USB power only

Does the device show up fine in device manager?
What if you use mini tool partition wizard free edition, does that show the disks at all?

Looks good in device manager, will check that tool out

 

[Haze]

Clean the heads of the drive.

I’ve got a couple of USB floppy drives that were “dead” when they arrived. Dismantled, cleaned the heads (with isopropyl alcohol) and cleaned/re-greased the mechanism and they are both good as new now.

Well if i have no joy finding an old PC in my dads garage, will have a look at taking it apart

 

[Haze]

why? what is the point ? Doom , runs off msdos which win 10. and win 11 don't have now, maybe if you had an old 32 bit retro machine it could be worth it, or are you hoping to run it on a modern computer? it won't run on a 64bit machine, and the sound will be unlikley to work too
if you are using a period machine, are you sure that it has proper native drivers for a usb floppy, in the OS that you are using?

Because i am selling them, so want to make sure they are still readable, not planning on installing it....

 

[Haze]

I had the drive plugged into a front port, and moved it around the back, can confirm they all still work after 30 years