Note 1: Under "Devices and Printers" the Drive was identified as "TEAC FD-05PUB". Our company recently upgraded our PCs to Windows 10 boxes and the software launches and recognizes the partitions on the thumb drive but will not. We use ipcas USB Floppy Emulator V1.31T with Windows 7 to load files on USB thumb drives. So no need to keep a diskette in the drive all the time or even have it connected all the time. We use a Greco Systems USB CNC Minifile for loading programs in machines. Note: On my machine (ASUS) if I take out the diskette or disconnect the drive, "Floppy Disk Drive (A:)" stays in the "Quick access" menu. Why it disappears from "This PC" is a mystery. There is an internal drive "(A:)" because if you right click it "Eject" does not appear as an option. Although "Floppy Disk Drive (A:)" will disappear from "This PC" after you close and reopen File Explorer, it will remain under "Quick access" and you can access it from there. It appears that W10 now thinks "Floppyĭisk Drive (A:)" should appear under "Quick access". Right click on "Floppy Disk Drive (A:)" and select "Pin to Quick access". You will now see "Floppy Disk Drive (A:)" listed under "This PC". File Explorer should open up and you will see the files on the floppy listed.
With the diskette still inserted, right click on the Teac icon and select "Browseįiles > Floppy Disk Drive (A:)". I opened "Devices and Printers" in the Control Panel and the drive was there.
During a boot up the drive clicks and spins like 3.5" drives did on older systems
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I have the Teac drive also and it appeared to install correctly, but did not show up in Windows Explorer.
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I have even tried to get Windows to load a different driver but I'm unable to get a list of Floppy Drives to appear when I ask to do an "UpdateĪfter 6 hours this worked for me. I have tried to look for a suitable driver on the web but am a bit dubious about some of the sites that come up. When I remove the disk from the Floppy Drive, the Floppy Drive still seems to want to access the disk even though there is not one in the drive - the green light on the front of the drive turns on repeatedly and you can hear the motor spin. Before anybody asks, I have tried these disks on another machine and they work OK. Write, modify and copy) is made possible with software compatible with Windows O.S. Formatting and to management of your Virtual Floppy Disk Library (e.g. I have tried several disks and non are recognised. USB-Floppy Software The USB Pen Drive can contain a library of 100 Virtual Floppy Disks, each of them with the capacity of 1,44 Mb, selectable by the switches located on devices front panel. However, when I insert a floppy, the Floppy Drive tries to continually read the disk as if there is a fault with the disk. Now with Windows 10, the Floppy Drive is "seen" by the system and has installed the SONY-FDU USB Device and its states that "This Device is working Properly". I have a TEAC FD-05PUB USB Floppy Drive which was working with Windows 7.