However, when plugging in to my Windows 10 machine, three of them would only sit and spin with the drive light on, even though they were recognized as drives by Win10.Īfter a little looking, I found that the devices that worked on my Windows 10 machine identified themselves and used the driver for the Y-E Data USB floppy, while the devices that just sat and spun identified themselves and used the driver for a TEAC floppy drive. I ended up trying five different devices and am posting my review to let you know my results.įirst, all five devices worked PERFECTLY on my Windows 7 Pro laptop. I collected all the drivers I used in my install in this zip file: Vostro 1700 WinXP Drivers.I was trying to recover data from floppies to my Windows 10 Home machine. The drivers for the Vostro 1500 can, however, fill in the gaps. I got 99 updates, but a video driver ain’t one?Īs this forum thread reveals, the the Vostro 1700 was designed with Windows Vista in mind, so not all the drivers were released for Windows XP. However, the installer leaves the driver files extracted in C:\dell\drivers\R190066, and pointing the device manager at this directory I was able to install those drivers anyway. I couldn’t get the video drivers to install, as the nVidia installer would tell me it found no supported hardware. Select the ICH8M-E-M drivers during the install: This should be something one could take for granted, but I’ve had two other USB floppy drives before this one and they’ve both had problems.Īnyway, here’s the files to stuff onto a floppy drive for the Vostro 1700: f6floppy.zip Mostly because it works, and reads all the disks I’ve tried. I use a very capable ESYNIC USB floppy drive, which I’d highly recommend. This is basically the same procedure as installing Windows XP on the Fujitsu Siemens Esprimo u9200, in that it needs custom SATA drivers to find the harddisk during install, as well as a bunch of other ones.įor this install, I decided to actually create a driver disk, and use a real floppy drive.
Installing Windows XP on the Dell Vostro 1700 Unknown bolt |
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