Customer Reviews

SmartDisk FDUSB-B2 USB External Floppy Disk Drive

5 star:		(7)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

Works great. Part of the reason I got this was because it was so small. However, because it was so small there is no extra room between the disk and the drive. One of my disks got stuck in there because the disk label had peeled up slightly and got snagged in the drive. I was able to retrieve my disk with pliers. Admittedly, this is not a defect of the drive but something to take into consideration.

I bought this drive along with a Compaq centrino notebook, it comes in black with a driver CD that you probably won't need if your OS is Windows XP (both Pro or HE).
Drive speed is faster than classic drives, and it's sleek design matched the centrino design of my notebook, however, the manufacturer released a titanium version of the same drive (SmartDisk FDUSB-TM2) which better matches Compaq, Toshiba and Sony centrino notebooks.

You absolutely CAN use this floppy drive to boot your computer. The review saying otherwise must have been misinformed, or did not understand how to configure their BIOS settings properly.

I've used this drive to boot dozens of different systems with no issues.

For short money, this was easy and fast. Just plug it in and it works. Faster than my last one but I am no expert by any means. All I know is that it does what I want it to do.

It's a beautiful little box, but it didn't work for me. I bought it because I wanted to access the files in my old floppies. But when I inserted a disk, and clicked on the disk drive, a message opened asking if I wanted to format the disk. (This would wipe out all my files) I still don't know exactly why this happened (and I tried a handful of disks).

As I looked at the customer info, I noted that it did NOT include Vista as one of the formats it runs on. And the SmartDisk customer service guy I talked to suggested that might be the problem. So I tried the floppy drive on another computer that runs XP, but with the same disappointing results.

I'm sorry to say, I'm returning it.

Works great. Purchased because of past experience with this product. So many of these adapters have been rebuilt as was my last one which kept prompting to format the very disc you were trying to review.

I got this because I had a stack of old floppies sitting here. I just plugged this into my laptop (with Windows 7) and I was able to transfer everything. I am so glad to have those gotten rid of!

This disk drives works great. Still have a old floppy disks that I want to be able to read to find out what's on them. Easy plug and play.

I was already using the Lacie Floppy Disk Drive, but since I have two computers, I was constantly unplugging the floppy disk drive from one computer and re-plugging it into another one. Now since I have the SmartDisk, I can have a floppy disk drive plugged into each computer. It is very convenient. It works well (just plug in and use), and I didn't have to spend an arm and a leg for it.

They don't bother telling you in the product description that this floppy drive can't be used to boot your computer system from this drive........Had to find out the hard way after scanning the files on the driver disk and users manual where it's noted in small print.