![]() ![]() In 2003 I was using the standard OS Windows Home Edition XP (2002) and had no issues THEN with opening (Sony Mav) 3.5 floppies and pulling photos and tranferring them all to disk. I'm still using the same CPU set up (a Dell Dimension 8300 purchased in 2003) which has a 3.5 floppy drive. They had all been formatted for the Sony camera and stored in a good climate controlled environment. All of them contain photos from 2000-2001 that had been taken with a Sony Digital Mavica FD-73. Recently I found several old 3.5 floppies (2HD IBM 1.44 3.5) from a storage box which had been lost and forgotten about. I thought perhaps I should try here for starters, since it deals with photos. Sign up to have the Hassle-Free PC newsletter e-mailed to you each week.Greetings, I've researched throughout the web where many had posted a similar question, but without generating much response. Ask for help with your PC hassles at or try the treasure trove of helpful folks in the PCWorld Forums. There’s a decent chance your next PC won’t have an optical drive, especially if it’s a laptop.Ĭontributing Editor Rick Broida writes about business and consumer technology. (If you’ve had any experience using such a drive with a newer PC, share it in the comments.)īy the way, in a few years I expect to be fielding the same question about CDs, so get your data off those babies now. Just plug the drive into a USB port and you should be good to go. I think that’s a fairly small price to pay for the simplicity of accessing your old disks on your modern PC. (Just be sure to check the user reviews for some tips on using it.) If you’d rather not go the auction route, Newegg also sells an external floppy drive for $14.99 shipped. I did a little shopping on Ebay and found plenty of 3.5-inch external floppy disk drives, most of them selling in the $10-15 range. No, a better bet is simply to spend a few bucks. ![]()
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