Floppy Disk Reader, 3.5 inch 1.44mb External USB Type A/C Floppy Disk Drive for PC, Laptop and Desktop Compatible with Windows 11/10/8/7/2000/XP, Not Compatible With Mac and Chrome, Black

Works as intended. I was able to recover most of my wife's 20 year old floppies. She has been looking for a couple of old pictures she thought were lost in one of her many movings before we met. Easy to use and no problems connecting it to my Windows 11 PC.

I got two of these to create old style dos and Atari games with. I have a ton of 3.5” floppies and this brings back the good ol days of saving on disks. Runs on win 11 just fine. Also comes up as drive a: just like on older computers. If you add a second it becomes b:. If you run discos you can use these with old games written for dos. Great product!

We needed this reader because we had some pictures that were on some 3.5 disks and we no longer had a computer with a reader. This one worked great and was affordable. The reason for the 4 star is the reader is kind of noisy

Worked well once I understood how to use it. steps: 1. insert disk into un-powered un-connected device 2. plug device into your computer directly or a powered hub not a passive hub for usb 3. access your files 4. to change disks extract the drive off of USB 5. once disconnected go back to step 1 and repeat. if you are from a time when you remember hot swapping these disks from your computer like me this was initially confusing as to why it would not update. USB makes it behave a bit differently. also I did not have to tell windows to "eject" the disk like you do with USB stick drives. just pull it off of the usb and windows will handle it. For reference, i am on a windows 10 machine.

I wanted something simple: plug in a floppy drive, read more than one disk, and rescue old files. The Chuanganzhuo CAZED-006 looked promising at a budget price, but in real use it proved fundamentally unreliable and nearly useless. Right out of the box the unit did spin up and show the first disk just fine — that was the only time it worked. After swapping to a second disk (even a perfectly good one), the reader would stubbornly cling to the first disk’s contents, refusing to refresh or recognize new data. The drive effectively becomes a single-disk read-only device, even if you eject the disk and insert another. That’s not a minor annoyance — it defeats the entire purpose of having a floppy reader. This problem persisted across multiple systems I tried, including a completely different PC setup. It wasn’t an isolated USB port or driver issue — the hardware itself just refused to read beyond the first disk. Nothing short of miraculous happened when switching computers. Some product literature suggests you can “refresh” or force a re-read by unplugging the unit and reconnecting it, and some user manuals even coach you on how to manually refresh the drive in File Explorer to see new disk data. In practice, those so-called workarounds are half measures at best — they don’t consistently fix the core problem of switching disks, and they feel like excuses for a design that doesn’t work the way it should. Digging around online, you’ll see mixed signals. On marketplaces there are a handful of positive ratings suggesting the drive works on Windows 10 or handles a batch of floppy disks without issue. But there’s also at least one outright negative review where someone says it “does not work and does not meet the specifications in the description.” That’s exactly the experience I had — anything beyond a single floppy becomes a gamble. To be clear — this is a simple peripheral, not rocket science. A floppy reader shouldn’t need driver hacks or manual refresh tricks just to load a second disk. The fact that this one behaves that way suggests either cheap parts, poor firmware, or sloppy integration between the mechanical reader and the host system. Bottom line: if you need to consistently read a collection of floppy disks and actually retrieve data, this Chuanganzhuo CAZED-006 is not the tool for the job. It functions sporadically at best, and it’s downright useless for everyday legacy data transfer. I’d skip it entirely and look for a more reliable USB floppy solution that doesn’t require so much technical wrangling just to read a second disk.

The first one sent did not work. I waited too long to try using it (life got in the way). So I emailed Michael at the email address provided in the documentation and I got a reply back right away. After trying the troubleshooting he suggested, the unit still didn't work. Within a week I had another unit, even though the returns period for the unit had long expired. The new one worked fine. So... they stand behind their product, so I would highly recommend it. But keep in mind... your floppy disks will degrade over time. Only 2 of the 12 I had to convert were still readable. So, if yours are >25 years old like mine were, likely you won't get any data off of them. For the price, it is still worth it to at least try!

Works great and easy to connect.

worked for me had 6 floppy discs from 1996 that i needed the files off of, plug & play, no issues and transferred my files.

Very poor products

I have been able to retrieve my old files from floppy's. Once I finish, I can chuck out all the old floppy's

Works great on win 10 -11. **WILL NOT READ 720K FLOPPIES!** Good build quality.

On occasions the Desk Top displays a message that the item was dismounted incorrectly even though no action was taken to disconnect the drive. A reconnection then takes place. This is disturbing. Ce rain discs take long to display its data even though there is just one file.