Windows 10: Flashdisk shown as floppy disk drive

I use defraggler and after sometime it's not responding I close the app and then try to use it again but I noticed that the flashdisk media type became floppy disk drive. How do I fix it?

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Floppy disk drive driver

Greetings,

I appreciate your swift response, if the above steps did not work no worries since this is an open forum , we can ask assistance from other community volunteers with their feedback and suggestion with this issue.

For the meantime you can try to check on this thread by @Gary_816

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/for...

After 6 hours this worked for me. I have the Teac drive also and it appeared to install correctly, but did not show up in Windows Explorer. During a boot up the drive clicks and spins like 3.5" drives did on older systems if there is diskette in the drive.
I opened "Devices and Printers" in the Control Panel and the drive was there. With the diskette still inserted, right click on the Teac icon and select "Browse files > Floppy Disk Drive (A". File Explorer should open up and you will see the files on the
floppy listed. You will now see "Floppy Disk Drive (A" listed under "This PC". Right click on "Floppy Disk Drive (A" and select "Pin to Quick access". "Floppy Disk Drive (A" should appear under "Quick access". Although "Floppy Disk Drive (A" will disappear
from "This PC" after you close and reopen File Explorer, it will remain under "Quick access" and you can access it from there. It appears that W10 now thinks there is an internal drive "(A" because if you right click it "Eject" does not appear as an option.
Why it disappears from "This PC" is a mystery.

Note: On my machine (ASUS) if I take out the diskette or disconnect the drive, "Floppy Disk Drive (A" stays in the "Quick access" menu. So no need to keep a diskette in the drive all the time or even have it connected all the time. Worked fine after I reconnected
it.

Note 1: Under "Devices and Printers" the Drive was identified as "TEAC FD-05PUB". If you get something different (assuming you have a TEAC) try running "Troubleshoot" and see if that corrects it.

I hope the information above helps.

Have a wonderful day ahead and stay safe.

With Warm Regards,

 

Floppy Disk Drive (A

Hi Penny,

Thank you for posting on Microsoft Community.

We are really sorry to say that the Floppy Disk Drive has no compatibility with Windows and there is no support to floppy disk drives.

For further more clarifications I would suggest you to check/Contact with the manufacturer.

keep us posted if you are facing any other issue with Windows.

 

USB Floppy disk drives not working in Windows 10

Hi,

as several other "oldies" I noticed the problem to show a floppy disk in the file explorer. After searching for a long time the best and easiest workaround was "cafejose" in the forum at bleepingcomputer.com. He or she wrote the following:

"I just found a way to work around this. When I right clicked on the tray icon to prepare to remove the floppy drive ( which seems strange to try, since no such item was shown in File Explorer), there was an item listing, "devices and printers". I clicked
on this item, and a window appeared showing devices and drives, and there it was - the floppy disc drive A:\ was shown. The Devices and Printers window showed some menus at the top of the window, one menu item saying "Browse", and so I clicked on the Down-Arrow.
A window that LOOKED LIKE File Explorer then opened, and there I could see the contents of the floppy disc in the floppy drive.

Now, with all that, will reopening File Explorer show the floppy disc A:\ drive?

NO!"

Link: Floppy disk drive not appear in File Explorer when plugged in - Windows 10 Support

Strange behavior by Windows10 I think, but this way is a bit easier than install (or even start-up) a virtual machine with e.g. WinXP to reach files on floppy disks! Thanks "cafejose"!