None of the computers were reporting drive errors though. It seemed that files were just getting randomly corrupted but I didn't know how or where it was happening. For weeks I pondered why I was having all kinds of problems, programs I transferred would not run sometimes. In any case the idea was I would use my "modern" albeit vintage HP Pavilion computer with an external USB floppy drive, to quickly get data in and out of the 5155. When I first got my IBM5155 I fitted a dual Teac 3.5" and 5.25" floppy drive to it along with a Seagate HDD. I can tell you about an experience I had with the cheap USB floppy drives from the far east. The PC interacts with the drive in a command prompt, but it will not format, nor does it see the files that are on the disks so I can copy them to a new one The driver is the "most current" and is reported as working The WIN10 PC sees the drive and will interact with it, but I keep getting error messages, even though I know the disk(s), I have tested many ) are in working condition.
(I am considering just buying a vintage PC to do this, but I don't really want a giant old PC tower sitting in the corner of my workshop gathering dust just for this one purpose) So, I bought a Chuanganzhuo USB floppy drive, popped it into my WIN10 PC, and can not get it to read files, nor write disks. and they sometimes work brilliantly and sometimes they are a giant time waster.
Those options are, MIDIOX, floppy emulators etc. Why you may ask? Becasue vintage synthesizers have these drives in them and sometimes it's just easier to load patch files from a floppy instead of the other options: In particular I want to make back up copies of orgininal disks to reduce there potential loss. I want to make copies of both 720K and 1.4MB floppy disks.
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