I have many 3 1/3 " disks that have photos that I have saved over the years (long ago) would like to save them to a DVD or thumb drive. I purchased an external USB 3 1/2 drive. I see it in explorer, but it says that the disk must be formatted, well I know it was or I would not have been able to save jpg file to it. My PC and Laptop tell me the same thing. Both of my PC's are running Win 7 64 bit. Help!
Reading a 3 1/2 disk in Windows 7
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Old floppy disks can loose their charge and the data be lost; if the data lost is the boot sector it could explain why the disk shows as unformatted. Of course there could be a problem with your new USB drive but it is less likely.
Have you tried multiple disks to see if any of them are recognized?
Have you tried multiple disks to see if any of them are recognized?