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Originally Posted by Arctic
My Wife bought a new Dell when she found out that the HP she had would not accept windows 11, which we were both surprised about.
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My laptop is a Dell Vostro 3525 with Win 11. On the build I asked for 2 x USB2.0 ports for legacy equipment. The USB2.0 ports only work for memory sticks and I can't get a legacy FDD or CD-Rom drive to work.
Raised a ticket with Dell on the issue, they collected but only reinstalled and updated Win 11 and the BIOS. Service Centre report made no mention of USB port checks with legacy items. Go figure.
Laptop returned with same issue. After much searching, and an e-mail contact with a MS Windows developer I found out that Win 11 has been stripped of legacy support whether intentionally or not.
The missing file is SFLOPPY.DRV but I'm unsure if another driver is needed for the CD drive. More investigative work to do but if anyone with Win 11 can use legacy, please let me know.
Kev