RAAYOO USB Floppy Disk Reader Drive, 3.5” External Portable 1.44 MB FDD Diskette Drive for Mac Windows 10/7/8/XP/Vista PC Laptop Desktop Notebook Computer Plug and Play No Extra Drivers– Black.
Getting an Iomega USB floppy disk drive to work in unsupported Windows versions Update may 2013: Works with Windows 8 x64 A short and to the point guide: Iomega officially only supports Windows XP (32 bit) for this drive (Citizen X1-DE-USB), but with this procedure I got it to work both the 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows Vista. I'm not sure about other versions of Windows; the standard 32 bit version of XP professional doesn't work with this method (it doesn't offer a fitting substitute driver, so the original Iomega driver is still needed).
I found out how to do this by looking at the.inf file that comes with the XP driver. It just tells Windows which operating systems are supported and to use the usbstor.sys driver. After unsuccessfully trying to get other Windows versions to accept the inf file, I instead tried to find another, similar, device that's supported by Windows out of the box and uses the driver. This worked; we're going to install the drive as a NEC USB floppy drive.
Plug in the drive. Windows will complain about needing drivers; click cancel. Go into the System configuration applet (control panel-system, switch to classic view if needed), and open the device manager You'll see the non-working floppy drive (disregard the usb data bar thingy). Right-click it and choose 'Update Driver Software'. Choose that you want to browse your computer for drivers. Choose that you want to pick from the list of existing drivers.
Floppy Usb Driver
Select the option to list all known devices. Now select the 'NEC Systems' 'NEC USB Floppy'. Disregard the warning. The device should now be installed and working: Windows will detect the NEC device and a X1DE-USB as well. A floppy drive will appear in Windows explorer.
Created: Dec 28 2007 Modified: May 17 2013.