Need Recommendation for 3.5" Floppy Drive (laptop, desktops, flash, Vista)
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I recently got a new laptop and just tonight realized that I potentially have a problem if either or both of my older desktops croak! I have a high-end embroidery machine that embroiders designs downloaded or created on a PC using a 3.5" floppy disk that is inserted in a slot on the machine. It isn't a problem right now since both desktops have a 3.5" disk drive but the laptop does not. I thought it would be inexpensive enough to have the dealer upgrade the machine to operate on a USB flash drive which is what a later model of the machine operates on, but the cost to upgrade (at $1,500 on top of a $6K machine) is so prohibitive. Additionally, upgrading to the new machine, using the old one as trade in will still require me to cough up a couple of grand. Besides being impractical, I don't use many of the advanced features of the sewing machine. However, I would want to be able to use the embroidery feature of the machine and download designs for well...another 10 years at least! I have been checking 3.5" floppy drives on various sites with various reviews saying they either go bad prematurely, incompatible with Windows, incompatible with XP, some incompatible with Vista, etc. etc. I have a Dell Inspiron 1520 running on XP Pro. I need recommendations for a reliable external floppy drive that would operate for a reasonable amount of time with minimal use. It would only be to actually hold the embroidery file so the sewing machine could use it. I know they are dirt cheap at $20+ bucks, but I don't want it to die on me when I need it the most, or worse, mess up my laptop. All suggestions welcome...
P.S. If any of them are Plug & Play, have a USB connection, and I don't have to monkey around with drivers and configs, all the better. I am not a techie.
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