Windows 10: External usb floppy constantly seeks / chugs

I'm running windows 10 on a gigabyte 370n-wifi board with a pentium g5400 gold core; it's a fairly modern bios etc. I bought an external usb floppy drive from ebay. It was one of the new ones designed more for legacy support. I would assume the computer is seeing it basically as a usb drive called 'floppy drive' and something on board may be doing the floppy drive read, as opposed to the computer controlling it directly. I noticed it does two odd things for a floppy drive. One, the led is continually on even when it's not actually reading. Two, it makes a 'chug' sound every couple of minutes. I realise that's the drive head jogging and it's quite likely caused by windows re-polling the connected drives; it even does it with file explorer closed. Question is, is there anyway to make it stop doing that other than just unplugging it? *sarc

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PCI Floppy card

I've never heard of one, but if you don't happen to find one, and you need a floppy drive, might I suggest an external USB floppy drive? They're pretty cheap, and I believe they're bootable, AFAIK.

 

trying get external iomega floppy drive to work with windows 10

Hello,

Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.

1. What is the current Windows 10 build version installed on your computer?
   
2. Are you able to use the Floppy drive on a different computer?
   

As there is a prompt on the screen saying the software is loaded, I suggest you to open the Disk Management and see if you are able to see the device under it.

Follow these steps to open Disk Management.

1. Press and hold the Windows + X key on the keyboard.
   
2. Select Disk Management.
   

Scroll down the Disk management window and check if the Floppy drive is visible, if yes.

• Right click on the Floppy drive.
  
• Click on Change drive Letter and Paths.
  
• Click on Change.
  
• Assign the drive letter you need and click on
  OK.
  
• Click OK to close the window.
  

Hope it helps.

Regards,

Noor Azam S

Microsoft Community – Moderator

 

Windows 10 USB Floppy Drive not working

Hi Willard,

Thank you for your response with the current status of the issue.

The issue could occur if the USB Floppy driver is corrupt.

To assist you better, please provide us the below information:

• Have you tried checking in another computer?
• Have you made any changes to the computer prior to the issue?

I suggest you to update to update TEAC USB Floppy drive and check if it helps.

1. Press Windows Key + R Key.

2. Then type “devmgmt.msc” without the quotes and hit on Enter Key.

3. Expand Disk Drives.

4. Right click on the USB Floppy driver and click on Update driver software.



Reply to us with the information, so that we can assist you better.

Let us know if you need any further assistance on Windows related issues and we will be glad to help.