Windows 10: My floppy disc drive is not showing up on anything

So I have a Mitsumi model D359M3 from a Windows 98 computer, and it's plugged in to my motherboard with a floppy disc drive ribbon cable, but it's not showing up at all anywhere. How do I get it to show up and get drivers for it?

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Floppy Disc drive not shown in 'This PC' drop down menu

Hi

Thanks for the suggestion

After putting in a disc, the drive didn't appear in the drop down menu, however I then clicked on the Floppy Disc Drive icon under the devices and drives and the drive popped up on the 'This PC' drop down menu

(clicking on this icon didn't make the device appear in the drop down menu when there was no disc inserted)

Thanks for the help

 

External floppy disc drive

Hi Jessie,

Floppy disk drivers has been removed for certain build versions of Windows 10. We are currently looking at the possibility in bringing this back on the future builds, but it is still uncertain as to when will it be completed. You can check out
Eliyas Yakub [MSFT]'s answer from this thread
for reference.

In your case, your laptop's manufacturer might have installed a working floppy disc driver, hence it's working on your laptop, but this might not be the case for your PC. We suggest that you try checking for driver updates, but we cannot guarantee that this
will work for your PC.

Let us know if you need further assistance.

 

USB Floppy disk drives not working in Windows 10

Hi,

as several other "oldies" I noticed the problem to show a floppy disk in the file explorer. After searching for a long time the best and easiest workaround was "cafejose" in the forum at bleepingcomputer.com. He or she wrote the following:

"I just found a way to work around this. When I right clicked on the tray icon to prepare to remove the floppy drive ( which seems strange to try, since no such item was shown in File Explorer), there was an item listing, "devices and printers". I clicked
on this item, and a window appeared showing devices and drives, and there it was - the floppy disc drive A:\ was shown. The Devices and Printers window showed some menus at the top of the window, one menu item saying "Browse", and so I clicked on the Down-Arrow.
A window that LOOKED LIKE File Explorer then opened, and there I could see the contents of the floppy disc in the floppy drive.

Now, with all that, will reopening File Explorer show the floppy disc A:\ drive?

NO!"

Link: Floppy disk drive not appear in File Explorer when plugged in - Windows 10 Support

Strange behavior by Windows10 I think, but this way is a bit easier than install (or even start-up) a virtual machine with e.g. WinXP to reach files on floppy disks! Thanks "cafejose"!