Win10/64: Usb Floppy Drive Stopped Working!

Hi! I have a Win10/64 laptop to which is connected a USB floppy drive, and, today, the drive stopped working. When I connect it, the light comes on for a second, but the drive doesn't appear in This PC. Also, the PC makes a sound indicating a good connection, and the PC doesn't display an error message. I suspect a driver error because another drive does the same thing. Can anybody help me? I have a lot of floppies, and, if the problem isn't fixed, I can transfer the information to a USB drive at my mother's house.

 

I would try it on another computer.

 

Restarting the computer worked. Sorry for wasting your time.

 

Hey! This is a place to learn and share what we have learned. You learned something and more importantly, you took the time to come back and share what you learned so maybe the next person who comes along with the same problem can fix his problem too. That's not a waste of time in my book!

 

I should have noticed since I participated in 3 out of the 4.

 

plodr, you're right. I just like floppies. I don't know why; I just do. And disk compression greatly increases the logical capacity of a floppy. Don't worry. I still use flash drives for some things. I'm also working on a better compression technique, and that will increase floppies' capacity further.

 

There are lots of things I still like - but that does not stop me from giving them up for technologies that are newer and better. I really cannot think of any advantage to using floppies any more.

Considering the inherent limitations of magnetic storage technologies in general, floppy disks in particular, and the number of problems you keep encountering, I would urge you to copy your floppies to a different, more robust storage medium ASAP. This is particularly true if your only copy of a file is on a floppy disk. And for sure, it is essential to ALWAYS have multiple copies of any file we don't want to lose.

 

I like floppies but use flash drives as well. I use flash drives for things that either don't fit on a floppy or wouldn't work well on a floppy.

 

BTW, I used to back up my software periodically, but the dedicated batch file I use to back up my programs stopped working: the script to get the current date stopped working, and the main batch file doesn't read the date properly. I can post the files here if you want.