USB Floppy Drive required

Rockman

I recently bought a Dell Inspiron 1150 online for my daughter to take to Uni but found to my horror that she is unable to save data onto a CD/DVD. I have been told that I can attach a USB Floppy Drive to my laptop which will save data onto a floppy disk. However on the Dell websie they cost £48.18 plus vat.

Can anyone advise of anywhere I can buy this cheaper? Also are they standard and could I attach any make of floppy drive to my Dell?

Browntoa

found this on ebay, search on usb floppy

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3713&item=6779510985&rd=1

£18....

others on there cheaper but check they are in the UK

any USB drive will work on the laptop...as long as it has drivers for Windows XP

payless

some form of usb memory stick might be easier

dccarm

I agree, a memory stick would be a much better option. Much greater storage and less money. A short term option might be to open a gmail or yahoo email account and email files to herself (assuming she has internet access!)

boogiemaster

Thats why i dont like dell!!!!! They want a fortune for their parts and utils.
And you thought bill gates was a robbing sod?

blinky

I notice they've dropped the price slightly upgrade to DVD writer now £65-70 was £85. Still a rip off.

joshm_2

Last weekend my local Dixons (Kingston upon Thames) was knocking external USB floppy drives out at around £15, IIRC...

NellyLock

im quite cetain when i worked at maplins they used to sell them there and for a lot less than 40£...lets have a look...
ok so not as cheap as i remember at £ 22( A02CF USB Floppy Drive)

y not get a usb pen as mentioned above i imagine that most uni machines (both southampton uni and durham certainly do) offer the use of usb devices and you can pick up a usb pen which equates to100 floppy disks in size for less than the floppy drive converter. i have listed 2 as examples from play.com which offer free delivery as well...worth a look into

Play.com USB 2.0 Flash Drive 256mb
In stock.
Usually dispatched within 24 hours.
our price: £16.99 Delivered
RRP: £24.99 You save: £8.00 (32%)
Play.com USB 2.0 Flash Drive 128mb
In stock.
Usually dispatched within 24 hours.
our price: £12.99 Delivered
RRP: £17.99 You save: £5.00 (27%)

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Besides the memory stick option you could always go for an external CD writer which are also cheap these days. Getting a floppy drive is a false economy these days.

Rockman

is a memory stick, memory pen and memory flash all the same thing? Which is best and call all be used on a Dell Inspiron 1500?

Thanks

Browntoa

yep..all the same thing and will all work on the laptop