KOOBOOK 1Pcs 1.44MB 3.5" Floppy Drive Connector 34 PIN 34P to USB Cable Adapter PCB Board with Power Cable

I built a new i9 Windows 11 PC in an old ATX case and decided to keep the old floppy drive that was in there. Since my new Gigabyte MB has no connector for floppy drives, I decided to try this floppy to USB adapter. I read all of the reviews here, so the first thing I did upon receiving the item was secure the USB cord to the module to make sure there would be no added stress on the fragile glue-covered solder connections. I carefully plugged the board into my floppy drive, making sure it was not upside down or offset. Then I plugged the USB cord into an internal USB 3.2 Gen 1 port on the motherboard via a USB 3.0 to 19-pin MB adapter cable. My floppy drive was already powered from the power supply, so I did not use the short power cable that came with this adapter. Now I have Floppy Disk Drive A in Windows and it works as good it ever did 30 yeas ago. Be aware that if the floppy disk is not write-protected, any modern version of Windows will create the hidden System Volume Information directory on the floppy disk. If you don't want Windows to modify your disk, be sure to write-lock it before inserting it. I only wish I could change the drive letter, but this adapter adds the drive to Windows as the internal drive A, which cannot be mapped to a different letter. I would have preferred that the drive appear in Windows like any other USB drive, which can be mapped to any drive letter. That's not a big issue though. Overall I'm happy to be able to read my old floppies on my new PC now.

Installed this on my sleeper build, runs a little on the slow side but considering I'm using a floppy drive on a computer thats nearly 20 years older than the drive itself that is to be expected. The chip itself is a little on the flimsy side, but if you aren't stupid that shouldn't be an issue considering it will live in a steel box. One thing to note is the unit doesn't quite meet the voltage requirement to power on a drive, but its close enough to where it works. Like, the floppy drive will read and write, but its slower than if it were in a machine from the floppy disk era. That being said I'm mostly using this for very basic stuff so speed isn't an issue. 8.75/10, 5 stars overall.

I installed an old floppy disk in an old tower with new build (SATA drives). I have been working with older OS's (USB bootables & VirtualBox) and wanted it for boot disks. I have a USB external floppy, but this was partly nostalgic and the drive was from this old case. This adapter works well for that. Here is what I noted: 1) No instructions. A brief instruction card would have been good. I had hooked a connector from the power supply to the board before figuring out the jumper from the CCA was for providing power to the drive. 2) This adapter makes the drive stick back further into the case. The power connector made it longer yet. I had to bend the connector to keep the wire out of my cooling fan. Either a straight connector, or just hardwire the power jumper to the board would be better. Especially if you have a big processor fan that makes funny noises if a wire sticks in it. 3) The logic connector does not have a key. This is not unusual as some old ribbon cables also did not have it. The CCA is marked for pins numbers, so check your drive. 4) There is no lock for the logic connector. There are some through holes in the board that a small zip tie can be fed through to secure both the connector to the drive and tie up cables. 5) I have a PCIe USB card I had in an old machine that I moved to this new one. It has a USB connector at the back of the board that worked well for this adapter. Otherwise I would have had to route a USB extension cable outside the case, or see if there is an adapter available to one of the USB ports inside the case. 6) My old drive sits there and 'ticks' (searching) if there is no floppy disk in it. I suspect it may be my drive, so I'll just keep a blank disk in it rather than buying a new one. All told, this could be improved, but it does what I wanted. Hope this helps anyone interested in a little retro looking build.

This item works, but my main problem is the item is poorly constructed and fragile. The white blob of glue fell off of my item entirely. Now, I'm worried about the wires being ripped out from where they are soldered. Be warned that this item is hard to test just because so many things can go wrong: bad floppy drive, bad USB port, or a problem with power. It's also easy to install wrongly by accident, e.g. it can be connected upside down to the floppy drive, or off-by-one. Also, many floppy disks have gone bad by now. I would not use this item to power a floppy drive. It does not seem safe to do so. The USB 2.0 spec supports only up to 2.5 W but I think some floppy drives can use 3.5 W. I powered my floppy drive independently from this item, just to be safe. This item works with DS HD 3.5" disks (1.44 MB). I have been unable so far to get this item to work with a double density disk (720 KB). The USB cable was sufficiently long for my full tower (Rosewill Thor V2) case. This item works on Windows 10. Note that right-clicking on random files (e.g. on your desktop) in Windows 10 will bring up a "Send to" menu and allow you send things to various drives including A:. Unfortunately every time you right-click on a file, Windows will check the floppy drive and make some noise. There is a registry setting to disable this useless "send to drive" feature. I found Ubuntu also accessed the drive too often so I applied some other OS setting there.

I thought it would fit on a floppy drive

Works as advertised. I can now hook an internal 3.5 inch floppy drive to my main computer. Mostly use it for transferring programs to and from my old Windows 3.1 486DX2 66.

I got this to get my tower PC an internal Floppy drive. While it does work and fits nicely inside my PC without protuding for some reason it's limit to only reading 1.44M Floppies and 720K Floppy's don't read. Not sure if this is a limitation of the adapter or the drive itself, but for what I needed it does work