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Reading Floppy disk in Modern Pc

MIRTAZAPINE

MIRTAZAPINE

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This would sound funny, I have many old floppy disk lying around and I want to retrieve the information from it and see what is inside. I wonder if there is any external floppy drive I can use that is compatible with windows 10? Is there any problem that I can face doing it?
 
Any internal or external floppy disk drive will do. Most legacy hardware is still supported by Windows. The only problem you might face is the integrity of your data on those floppies.
 
I'd get this: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002G1YP3O/?tag=tec06d-20

Edit: I just plugged my old NEC USB floppy into my Windows 10 computer and A: popped up right away. Mine has withstood probably 300 reads and still works.


Alternatively, you can probably find an old 3.5" floppy drive somewhere and plug it into the FDD header on an older computer.
 
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