I had all my photos put on floppys. Will it read these so that I may put them on CDs?
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It should. I'm running Windows XP and used this drive to read some CAD files that I drew years ago. Opened the files fine. I thought it worked really well. Good luck
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It will only read and write to 1.44MB 4.5 inch discs that are in a plastic case. Any disk, larger than 4.5 inches will not fit in the unit. What I consider a "floppy" disk is larger than 4.5 inches, is not in a rigid plastic case, and stores less than 1.44MB of data.
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The SABRENT External USB 1.44 MB Floppy Disk Drive I purchased did read all the data on several of my 3.5-inch floppy disks so that I could save the data to the hard drive on my laptop and to USB thumb-drives, so the external USB 1.44 MB disk drive should be able to read your photos to save them to CDs.
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I was able to transfer all of my floppys to my computer using this drive. You should be able to then transfer or burn them to cd or dvd.
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I wish I could help, I have windows 7, took it out of the box plugged it in to my comp and was able to read my floppys. Worked perfect.
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No, if your computer has a USB port.. But if you want to save the photos you may have problems with the software.
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Yes. I have Windows 7 and I bought the Sabrent External USB floppy disc drive to transfer pics from some old floppy discs I found. It worked perfectly. I plugged it in and it had it's own software. I went to my photo organizer and imported my pictures immediately from floppy drive to computer. It's great.
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Unfortunately the answer is "no". The program only recognizes scans as pictures and not characters.
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Yes. You will need to download / install Canons software to access the data.
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It will play DVD's. . .but has no floppy. I bought a plug in floppy which works pretty good. For the price, its a fairly good computer. I bought it for my office data storage. Couldn't be the price. My local Dell refurb shop would have sold it for $ 400+.
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You should be able to recover data if your computer is set up to get into the external floppy disk. I have no problem with mine.
2010995
I'm pretty sure it has to format them. When you put a drive in it will look at it and say that to use it it will need to format it and ask if you want to do that. But I'm not 100% sure. Drobo.com has a pretty good support section where I bet you can find the answer.
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Hi Walter. This drive works on 3.5 disks. It worked very well reading my old 3.5 floppies when attached to my iMac and my PC.
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No, this is only for reading Zip Disks. You need to get a drive made to read the 3.5" disks. They do exist. I have a LaCie Floppy Disk Drive which connects with USB. It is Plug and Play. It is compatible with PCs going back as far as Windows 98 and up to XP, but probably also 7. Also Macs from 8.6 to 10.1 and above.Hope this info helps.Here is a link for one: LaCie 706018 USB Ext Floppy Disk Drive
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I would think so. My disks and the files on them were from old Windows version laptop and desktop computer. I transferred Word, Excel, and Powerpoint files and some images that were most likely JPeg. Everything opened just fine on my current laptop that I plugged this little drive into. But please note that this is a floppy disk (hard square things) drive and not a CD/ROM drive. If your disks are from the photo developer they are most likely CDs. This won't work for DVDs or CDs (shiny round disks).
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This is a tray-based drive, so it should read any optical disc type. It reads mini CDs, I know that much.
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I would imagine it reads digital info on a CD just as it does on a DVD. The disc drive in my computer reads both and burns both. I don't see why a portable drive would act any differently.
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Well, I have some old Verbatim and 3M floppies. And the external floppy I bought described here worked very well. I don't know why they would not work for you. If they are corrupted or they are non-functional that may be the case. Sorry I could not give you something more.
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When you get the photos scanned you can do whatever you want with them -- they end up in standard jpg format. How long it takes to copy them to disc has nothing to do with this scanner -- it's a function of your computer setup.
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I know it would upload them to your computer. Not sure if they are copy righted if thy will let you copy.