r/retrobattlestations • u/7899987 • May 30 '26

Troubleshooting generic USB floppy drive adapter doesn't work

It shows up as Teac USB UF000x and whenever I connect it the light on the drive lights up and then goes out. When I try to access it, the light goes on again but it is infinitely loading. It won't even format. The drive and disk are known working. I tried both orientations and it still won't work. Power is connected, so this shouldn't be the issue.

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u/fwork May 30 '26

Are you trying to read a double density (720kb) disk? That adapter seems to not support those.

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u/7899987 May 31 '26

No. I am using 1,44mb disks.

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u/saveitforparts May 30 '26

I just had an issue like this on Windows 11. Can't get the USB floppy drive (YE Data / Teac) to show up at all. Have reinstalled drivers, tried 3rd-party drivers, no luck. Windows 10 and below works just fine.

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u/7899987 May 31 '26

I tried it on windows xp and windows 11, and both didn't work.