What I thought was going to be a simple approach to reclaiming some important (to me anyway) old files on floppies when using my newer machines has turned into a time sink.Īny thoughts on this would be very much appreciated. USB flash drives work just fine in the same ports. Either that or there is something seriously busted with the driver. Maybe I'm missing something, but the Teac drive seems to just not work properly. Instead I get the same message that the diskette is unformatted. I have been reluctant to plug the drive into my XP machine, but have confirmed that a floppy formatted and written to on the Win 7 machine is not recognized by the XP machine when loaded into its internal floppy drive. The A: drive then shows up in the left hand pane and you can navigate directories and look for files as normal. You have to click on the computer icon in that pane and then click on the A: drive icon that shows up in the right hand pane. I think the simplest solution is 15-20 bucks for a new one. TEAC product: USB UF000x write protect: off media type: 2HD status block size kb formatted 28. Is there a better, more robust way to create a bootable DOS 3.3 floppy. I cannot tell if my method is faulty, or if its the diskettes or the drive. Connecting a USB Floppy should be nothing more then plug and play. The USB floppy drive is a generic thing with a TEAC chipset (according to dmesg). The drive also does not initially show up in the left hand pane in WIndows Explorer when you bring up Explorer. The next steps I'd take would be looking at driver corruption but as the same problem occurs on other OS install (even if an Insider Preview) don't think it's worth the trouble. Unloading and reloading the diskette after the drive is plugged in accomplishes nothing. Unplug the drive, plug it back in, and it is once again flagged as being loaded with an unformatted diskette. If the diskette is re-formatted, it is recognized and files can be written and read from it. Regardless of which, when the floppy drive is first plugged in it says that a loaded diskette is unformatted even though it is formatted with files on it. It does this with either the Windows 7 version of the sfloppy.sys driver or with the Windows XP version. Dell machine with Windows 7 automatically recognizes the Teac drive and says it's installed and working correctly in the device manager. Nothing I could find from TEAC either.Įdited by treestumpexhaustpipe, 27 October 2018 - 08:40 PM.įor what it's worth I tried the fix described below to no avail. Google searches just lists a lot of dubious sites who claim to have it. I need to get it working as my rackservers only flashes BIOS and IPMI from floppy drive. I installed the driver from Microsoft update and that did not help anything either.Īnyone have a driver for windows 7 for the TEAC UF000X USB Floppy drive ? Windows 10 recognizes it but cannot format write or read the same disk I used in Linux, neither can it a new blank disk. This drive works perfectly with Linux out of the box. While windows 7 running, move existing sfloppy.sys to įrom an XP distro copy sfloppy.sys on a flashdrive or other means.Ĭopy sfloppy.sys to the same directory where you renamed to on Windows 7. Solution was to copy the xp floppy driver and directly replace the Windows 7 driver.
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