The Floppy Disk Drive

I tried to insert my floppy disk into the super drive on the right hand side of my iMac G5 but it didden't mount?

SuperDrive on a Mac G5 is for hard media such as CDs and DVD. Floppy discs denote an older style of recording media, which typicaly held no more than a megabyte of information, as opposed to a CD/700mb or a DVD/4.7gb. In any event, if you are having an issue with a CD or a DVD not showing up on the desktop when inserted, the first thing to do is to check (will be in your dock) System Preferences>CD/DVD. Use the menus there to select what applications media will open with. Also, go to Finder>File>Preferences (top of the screen menubar) and check the box which will allow media to appear on the desktop.

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Solaris 8 Floppy Disk Drive Problem

Hi to all!, I need help with Solaris 8 10/00 Intel. I�ve installed it and everything works fine, but I cant make the system to recognize the floppy disk drive, everytime I do a "volcheck", it just ignores it. Inside CDE happens the same thing, when I do check the floppy, nothing happens. Any clue?. I�m using an AMD Athlon 700, with VIA KT133 chipset. Thank a lot!.

Try "ftp" + your email address. (but "anonymous" works, too).
Perhaps a typo or there was some other temporary problem with the
web site.
The K7M boards have different bios release numbers, it seems the
first bios release had a revision number of 1007:
ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/slota/k7m
Do you have to boot using the DCA floppy for some specific reason?
(for example to install using the >32GB ide-drive patch; network install
and no local cdrom drive; El-Torito CDROM boot does not work at all)?
Or do you have the system already installed by booting from CDROM,
and you just want to get usable floppy/serial/parallel ports under
solaris 8? In that case have a look at http://www.tools.de/solaris/via/. I've written a small driver that attaches to the VIA
686A SouthBridge PCI/ISA device and it re-enables the Super-I/O
controller on that chip. The Super-I/O chip is disabled due to the
solaris ACPI bug and is the reason all these on-board devices do
not work under solaris 8. According to
http://www.asus.com.tw/products/Motherboard/SlotA/k7m/spec.html, the K7M uses the same SouthBridge chip, so my driver should work for
this board, too.

Can I boot the 380e bios ugrade from the cd drive rather than the floppy disk?

Can I boot the 380e bios upgrade from the cd drive rather than the floppy disk? I don't have any floppies around and I don't want to order them online just for this one task. The bios disk images are here. http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/detail.page?LegacyDocID=DSHY-46AKPY

I'm sorry that I can't answer your CD vs diskette question, but you mention updating your 380E BIOS and the link you've included is for the 390E.
Here's the 380E BIOS link: http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS001672
What version are you currently at?
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Accessing physical floppy disk drive from Windows 8.1 host machine to Windows XP SP3 hyper-v?

Hi there!
Could someone help up me? I just wanted to ask if it's possible for a hyper-v to access a physical "floppy diskette" drive?
Here's my setup: I have a Windows 8.1 as my host and Windows XP SP3 as the virtual machine. I would need to access the contents of the physical floppy diskette drive from the Windows XP SP3 vm. This is needed, because, currently our customer is still using
floppy disk drives, to most of their in-house applications. I tried to open Drive A: inside Windows XP SP3 VM while the physical diskette from the Windows 8.1 is inserted. But then again, it cannot directly access the contents. Also, I tried to use "virtual
floppy drives" and copy the files from the diskette. But for some reason, their applications do not support it. I did check device manager in Windows XP SP3 vm, but i cannot see the "Universal Serial Bus Controllers" option inside the VM.
Please help!!! Thank you!
All the best,
MS CAMPer

HI Carey, thanks for this, But this is under System Center Virtual Machine Manager. I already saw this a while ago.
Anyway, is there a way for Windows XP VM to access a physical floppy diskette drives inserted to Windows 8.1 host machine? I dont intend to use Virtual floppy disks. Only Physical ones.
Please please. Need your help guys! :( Thank you!

External floppy disk drive

I have an HP F1059C External Floppy Disk Drive by TEAC that came with a (really) old HP laptop. I have some old research saved to floppy disks I need to access. Is there a cable that will convert my External drive to a USP port on my present HP laptop with Windows 8? Do I need a new driver?
Thanks
Oxford Designer

Thank you Dean Huffy. Yes, I recall it was an omnibook. I loved the compactness of the thing. And it had enough heft one could throw it like a brick at someone's head if they made fun of it. Your advice alone is worth the $30 and elegant in its simplicty.
If you have the patience, I would add another permutation to my situation. After the Omnibook's monitor went dark the files were tranferred via it's floppy drive to its desktop successor, for which I ordered a redundant floppy drive for that purpose. There it rested, with some updates, but unbidden for the past five years until the desktop crashed and I replaced it with the present laptop. I took the two units to my local computer repair person who neatly transferred most if not all the contents of the former to the latter, EXCEPT THAT, when I try to open the one, much coveted file, I get a message "cannot convert password protected documents". Okay, so had so much regard for the file I put a password on it, but I can't even get to a point where I can enter a password; and following the Windows advice to "Open and Repair" seems to have no impact.
The bottom line is, I am most grateful for your advice on how to recover the file as of 2001 from an old back-up floppy , but would be even more grateful if I can recover the file through its 2009 updates now on my harddrive (and perhaps a back-up CD.)
Thank you, again.
Hank

Floppy Disk Drive for Mavericks

Hello
Does anyone know of an FDD for a mavericks mac? I would like to create boot disks for an old mac. Is this a good method to consider? I am not sure how else to go about this. If there is an alternative, whatever it might be, please let me know.
I apologise for posting here but this relates to older machines in a way.
Thanks in advance.

The original system for a PowerBook 2400c/180 was 7.6.1. Other supported systems (according to Apple's technical specifications) were 8, 8.1, 8.5, 8.6 and 9. You would need to purchase an appropriate Apple system CD. Ensure that it is a retail disc (for all models), not a disc for a certain (other) machine.
You can use one of the Apple CD-ROM drives above, providing that you have the proper HDI-30 cable. See the manual for details about connecting SCSI devices and about booting from a CD.
If necessary, and if the already installed operating system is working (and you can navigate the Japanese menus), you should at least be able to create a Disk Tools PPC floppy on the PowerBook. Use the Disk Copy 6.3.3 program (the Make a Floppy command under the Utilities menu) for this. I assume that you have the external floppy disk drive for the PowerBook.
www.info.apple.com/support/oldersoftwarelist.html
http://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Software_Updates/English -North_American/Macintosh/System/Mac_OS_8.1_Update/Disk_Tools_PPC.img.bin
http://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Software_Updates/English -North_American/Macintosh/Utilities/Disk_Copy/Disk_Copy_6.3.3.smi.bin
One may also want to try to modify a Disk Tools PPC to hold CD-ROM software, thus allowing a CD to be read when the computer is running from the floppy disk system.
Additionally, since the computer in question has PC Card slots, an inexpensive PC Card adapter for CompactFlash and a CompactFlash memory card can be very useful for file transfers. In certain PowerBook models, such a CompactFlash card (reformatted to Mac) can even act as a startup disk (if it has an appropriate system folder).
Jan

I need a floppy disk drive for old 3 1/2" disks. I have a PowerBook G4 Mac with MacOS X 10.4 operating system. What will work for me?

I need a floppy disk drive for old 3 1/2" disks. I have a PowerBook G4 with Mac OS X 10.4 operating system. What external drive will for for me?

Hi,
Providing that the old 3.5" floppies are 1.44 MB HD disks, you should be able to use a USB floppy drive.
However, if the disks are 2DD/DSDD in the 800K Mac format a USB drive is not going to work. In this case you would need a suitable semi-old Macintosh computer with a built-in floppy drive as an intermediary.
Jan

Increase the hard disk drive capacity on a MacBook Air

is it possible to increase the hard disk drive capacity from 64 to 128 G? How do I do it?

It would appear Apple does not intend for you to do it.
It might be possible, if expensive.
I would consider an external drive.
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How do I repair the internal disk drive on an older iMac?

Running Snow Leopard OSX 10.6.8 on an older iMac. I ran Disk Utility and it found a problem requiring the internal disk to be repaired. The instructions said to boot the system using an installation CD. The only CD I have is for OSX 10.4.4 ( Tiger). I don't have one for Snow Leopard. I can access this CD and instructions on the CD, "About Apple Hardware Test" say to hold down the D key to boot into the diagnostics, or the hold down the "C" key to boot to the OS on the CD. Neither of these options work. It keep booting into Snow Leopard (OSX 10.6.8) and I cannot repair the internal disk drive without running on an OS started form the CD.
I've spent a couple of hours trying to get it to boot to the Tiger installation CD. Wish I had made an install CD for Snow Leopard. Maybe that would work. Is that what I need? I really think it should boot to the Tiger CD.
I've spent lots of time in these user forums and don't see anything that helps. Any suggestions?? Having trouble with doing automatic Time Machine backups to an external disk drive and maybe it is because of the corrupted hard drive. Although the error looks quite minor from the description in Disk Utility. The system runs fine and I don't see any other problems. Just struggling with Time Machine.
This is an older iMac, 4,1 with a 2.0 GHz Intel Core Duo with 2 GBytes of SDRAM. 20 inch screen. I have a MBP sitting next to it and use them both, even though I can't update the iMac to Lion or above because of the Core Due processor. It is still a good computer and very useful.
What do I have to do to get it to boot from a CD?
Thanks for your help,
veehb

That is well worth $20. I'll pick one up tomorrow. Is there an easy way to make an installatoin CD that will also be a backup for my installation?

Where can I buy an external floppy disk drive for my Macbook?

where can I buy an external floppy disk drive for my Macbook?

You can find them on eBay http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=usb+floppy+drive&_osacat=0&_from=R40&_trksi d=p2045573.m570.l1311.R1.TR2.TRC1.A0.Xusb+floppy+drive+for+mac&_nkw=usb+floppy+d rive+mac&_sacat=0

External floppy disk drives for the new iMac?

I'm trying to move a whole slew of files I created on a Macintosh from a longtime back--the original Mac--and they are all saved on floppy disks. I recently bought a Sony MPF88E not knowing it didn't work with the new Leopard OS. Are there any external floppy drives out there that do work with the new OS?

Hello and Welcome to Apple Discussions.
I just dug out my +TEAC FD-05PUB+ (which I originally bought for an iMac DV running OS 9.0.4!). It works fine* on my Aluminium Intel iMac 2.8GHz.
I'm not sure why the Sony wouldn't work. Does it appear in System Profiler and/or Disk Utility?
mrtotes
* by fine, I mean normal, but I'd forgotten how bad floppy disks are...

3.5 internal floppy disk drive problem

I think I jammed a floppy disk and damaged the connection.
While back, my 3.5 inch floppy disk started jam.
I am thinking replace the disk.
Would you let me know if anyone know what type, what brand, and where can I buy the internal floppy disk.
But my computer turned on with out no problem.
The smiling Mac face shows on the screen but after that nothing happen.
When I insert the original CD, nothing appears on the desktop.
I do not have a problem to restart the computer, using the control + apple + power key, but since there is no other icon, I have to force to shout off; pressing the hardware bottom.
Please someone help me!
Power Mac G3 beige minitower Mac OS 9.2.x 300MH

Hi, mac gart -
Welcome to Apple's Discussions.
If the internal battery in that machine is old, try replacing it. The Beige/Platinum G3's are known for having boot problems when that battery is too weak or dead.
Once the battery has been replaced, also reset the PRAM -
Article #2238 - How to Reset PRAM and NVRAM
Are you able to boot the machine to an OS 9 Install CD?
Do you not have an OS installed on the internal hard drive? Note that the internal floppy drive and the internal hard drive are not the same thing.

3 1/2 inch floppy disk driver mac osx

I have many 3 1/2 inch floppies. I have a USB 3 1/2 inch floppy drive that works fine, Using Disk Utility, my Intel iMac running OS 10.6.8 sees the drive and the floppy (grayed out) but will mount the floppy. Is there a driver I need that will help with this? Thanks, [email protected]

Depends on the drive. If it uses the standard USB mass storage protocols then it will work like any other USB drive. Otherwise, drivers will be needed.

My DVD/CD-ROM and floppy disk drives can't read or write contents

When I check through the computor it says verything is working. I have some CD's I wrote data and files to with this computor but for some reason it's showing me that there's nothing on the floppy's or the CD's.
Mined you I have another computer and its able to see, write, save, to these same Floppy's or CD's.
It's also telling me to load the CD when its already in the RW devices in my computer.
I just reloaded everything on to a new hard drive in April, I used the DVD/CD-RW and everything was fine.
My model is Satellite 2415 S205. I have reloaded Drivers. What else can I do? I refuse to believe the RW/DVD and the "A" went bad at the same time.

It sounds like you may have multiple problems, but none of them are likely to be caused by malware.
First, the internet-related issues may be related to adware or a network compromise. I tend to lean more towards the latter, based on your description of the problem. See:
http://www.adwaremedic.com/kb/baddns.php
http://www.adwaremedic.com/kb/hackedrouter.php
If investigation shows that this is not a network-specific issue, then it's probably adware. See my Adware Removal Guide for help finding and removing it. Note that you mention AdBlock as if it should have prevented this, but it's important to understand that ad blockers do not protect you against adware in any way. Neither would any kind of anti-virus software, which often doesn't detect adware.
As for the other issues, it sounds like you've got some serious corruption. I would be inclined to say it sounds like a failing drive, except it sounds like you just got it replaced. How did you get all your files back after the new drive was installed?
(Fair disclosure: I may receive compensation from links to my sites, TheSafeMac.com and AdwareMedic.com, in the form of buttons allowing for donations. Donations are not required to use my site or software.)

How to install a external floppy disk drive?

I insert a external USB floppy drive in my Macbook Pro, but no responce! Pls help!

Disconnect all USB devices except the floppy drive. From the menu bar, select Apple menu > About This Mac. The System Profiler application will open. Look under Hardware > USB for an entry representing the drive. If you're not sure, post the output. If the drive is not listed, either it's dead or something is wrong with the cable or your USB port. You can distinguish those possibilities by testing the drive with another computer and testing another device with the same USB port and cable.
If the drive is listed in System Profiler, but doesn't work, then it may be faulty or incompatible.

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