The Slimline USB External Floppy Drive gives you the convenience of plug-and-play: the first time you insert the floppy drive, it is automatically recognized and your notebook will do the rest. Lightweight and compact, this floppy drive's easy hot plug installation allows you to connect and disconnect without restarting your notebook. You can read and write to 3.5” floppy diskettes, including 720K/1.44MB Windows-based format and 1.4MB Macintosh format. And the drive is conveniently bootable with most notebook computers.