If it's the Sony-branded floppy, then I would expect it to be bootable. I have seen Linux installation instructions for Sony laptops that utilize bootable floppies. Check the BIOS and see if it allows ...

Since Apple killed the floppy, have you found yourself living with zombies? Your PC friends keep sending you floppy disks, and you still have old backups you should transfer to another medium. The ...

It didn't take me long to want to plug these floppy disks into my computer, but, of course, I don't own a PC with a floppy drive in 2026. That's when it dawned on me that USB-powered external drives ...

Mode 3 is a Japanese floppy disk specification. It gets only 1.2 MB per disk, and I imagine is incompatible with what we're used to using. Not sure though. And your Sony may very well support it--it's ...

If you need to, it's entirely possible to read and write to floppy disks with a modern PC or laptop. Invented back in 1971, the floppy disk is remembered as one of the most iconic and reliable disk ...

The other day, as I was doing some spring-cleaning, I stumbled upon something I forgot I even owned: a plastic tote filled with old 3.5-inch floppy disks from the nineties. With fascination, I sifted ...