So it looks like any Mac with a SuperDrive 1.44 MB type floppy drive will work at reading those older 400K and 800K diskettes.įYI, a really good source on this information relating to the Mac 400/800K drives.
I am not sure what model of macs with floppy drives could read and write 400K and 800K disks, so there is another question to ask, and here is the answer Floppy Drive Observations: A Compleat Guide to Mac Floppy Drives and Disk Formats. If that is not your thing, then you should find an old Mac with a floppy drive to read the files and move them to more modern media via networking / apple-share etc. Note This is going to require some hacking fun to accomplish. So it looks like you need a internal floppy drive and KryoFlux a USB-based floppy controller. I am not sure if you can do it with the Iomega drive especially since its USB, you would probably have to take it apart to do the next option.Īccording to this forum there is a way to control a floppy drive to get it to read those 400/800K disks. Double click the Zip drive’s icon in File Explorer and you’ll see the contents of your Zip disk.
The Emu behaves exactly like a real disk drive, requiring no special software or drivers. It uses an SD memory card and custom hardware to mimic an Apple floppy disk and drive, or an Apple hard drive.
It looks like you are going to need to use an older Mac to read the disks, due to the complexities involved with the variable speed drives used to format those disk, unless you want to re-program your floppy drive. Then insert a Zip disk, and the drive will appear in This PC in File Explorer, usually labeled as USB Drive. Floppy Emu is a floppy and hard disk emulator for classic Apple II, Macintosh, and Lisa computers.
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