JVC wrote:By judging from the original post, most likely you have faulty floppy drive on your 2000XL.
Most of new Floppy disks come pre-formatted, and 2000XL uses the same format that Windows 95/98/2000/XP use.
Windows can read 2000XL formatted floppies (because it is same formatted as Windows / DOS), so you can copy all data on floppies' to your PC, and copy to CF card.
I think Windows can access S950 floppies as well. (not too sure, can't S950 read/write on HD floppy disks?)
If you want to use floppy drive, just replace the drive on XL with new floppy drive.
But, I do recommend CF reader upgrade. Even cheap non-swappable CF card reader is much, much better than dealing with floppies.
Hot-swappable CF card reader is even better, but I've been happy with non-swappable CF card reader.
Ah okay I did check all the cables inside and it seemed fine to me. I wanted to use floppy instead of CF/SD internal as I don't want to solder, and because of the s950 which can save and read floppy's, couldn't read it through my PC drive though, which is windows 10 OS if that's some kind of issue?
I'm guessing replacing the floppy drive is just a case of connecting the cables like in a usual PC, I read that the 2000xl has a special kind of floppy drive though somehow, instead of a regular cheap one?
If I wanted some kind of external SCSI connection too like CF/SD, is there any affordable method that isn't ZIP. As what I've looked at is usually overpriced for just a few board parts and a slot, and I can't find much a part from Artmix ones which seem highly priced, when it's literally an external card drive.