Copy Floppy Disks to Digital Locally

Transfer Floppy Disks to USB

Our Floppy Disk File Transfer Services

3½-INCH FLOPPY DISKS

Don’t let important files get trapped on outdated floppy disks just because you no longer have a floppy drive in your computer. We transfer floppy disks to USB drive so you can once again easily access your files. 

Many of us still have important documents, spreadsheets, or archived data stored on old 3½-inch floppies tucked away in boxes and in drawers. We use professional equipment to read your 3½-inchinch floppies, copy the files, and save them on modern storage, making your old data accessible again on any Mac or PC. We also verify all files successfully transfer, and offer troubleshooting and recovery options if we encounter problems.

Convert floppy disks to digital through our floppy disk file transfer services and you’ll have a world of options for easy viewing, sharing, uploading, reprinting, editing and archiving your important files. Stop by any location to get started!

Starting at $14.95/disk

Transfer Your Floppy Disks to USB with Memories to Digital

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Read & copy data off 3½-inch floppy disks

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Data transfer integrity checks

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Troubleshooting & recovery options

As storage media ages, it’s important to consolidate and migrate data to a current option, and then backup data up so you don’t lose access to important files. At Memories to Digital, we bridge the technology gap for outdated formats like 3.5-inch floppy disks. By providing professional transfer of floppy disk data to USB, we’re here to help preserve your important data.

Additional Information

What’s Included When We Transfer Floppy Disks to USB

All 3½-inch floppy disk data transfers include:

  • Meeting with you to discuss the details of your project. If you’ve mailed your material, we’ll call you for details.
  • Transferring your files to a new storage medium. This process includes:
    • Reading and exploring each original storage medium you provide.
    • Copying the data to your new storage medium. 
    • Creating a folder system on the new storage medium to account for and organize the data from each original source.
    • Checking the integrity of the data transfers to verify that all files copied completely. 
    • Documenting any hardware, software or file system problems that prevent a complete data transfer.
    • Advising you as to any troubleshooting or repair options.

Your original storage media are returned to you with your finished project. All data migration is done by our professionally trained staff in our local lab.

Note: Data transfer is limited by the condition of your original media. Additional charges may apply for: cleaning, handling, troubleshooting, or repairing dirty, moldy, damaged, degraded, corrupted or otherwise untransferrable media or files ($120/hour, $19.95 minimum per media, $4.95/file). Drives sold separately.

 

 

Preparing Your Floppy Disks for Transfer
  1. Number each original storage medium if there is a specific order you’d like us to maintain.
  2. Think about how many copies you’ll need. We recommend purchasing a second copy that can be stored separately for safekeeping. 
  3. Consider subscribing to our local, secure, offline backup storage plan.
  4. Get started – pick a location to drop off your media and book an appointment, or simply stop by a location that accepts walk-ins.

Floppy Disc Transfer Pricing

Storage Medium
Pricing
Floppy Discs
$14.95/disk

Minimum order: $29.95

Additional charges may apply for: cleaning, handling, troubleshooting, or repairing dirty, moldy, damaged, degraded, corrupted or otherwise untransferrable media or files ($120/hour, $19.95 minimum per media, $4.95/file). Drives sold separately.

Why Choose Memories to Digital?

We Treat Your Memories as if They’re Our Own

We founded Memories to Digital in 2003 after our family mailed their family films away and they got lost. We wanted our community to have a local place to convert family memories, one that offered an alternative to faceless mail-away services.

Today, whether you visit a Memories to Digital location, a Memorywise location, or one of our local partner businesses to drop off or pick up, you receive the same great service from the same dedicated local team. We are your media digitization experts.

We do 100% of our work ourselves, in-house, locally. We give you and your memories the personal service, care and attention deserved, and we use the latest technology to provide you with high-quality digital memories.

Safe, Secure, and Nearby

Eliminate the worry of mailing your memories. We’re local, we do all of our work in-house, and we take it seriously to safeguard your media while in our care.

Media Digitization Experts

Put our extensive digitization expertise to work! We don’t sell cameras or print photos–we specialize in converting all of the old media formats into the latest and best digital formats.

Quality You Can Trust

Our 30-day, 100% guarantee says it all. We pride ourselves on delivering the best possible digital replication of your media as ordered, and will work tirelessly to resolve any issues.

Customized Solutions

Meet with a real person and get your project done right. We’re not a cookie-cutter, drop-box operation– we offer a level of personal service and customization others can’t touch. 

Testimonials

Just wanted to thank you again for the great job you did on my family’s movies. They were a big hit, especially the first DVD – The Early Years. Mom and Dad both teared up as they told their children and grandchildren about our family’s history.

Oke Johnson
Superior, CO

Thank you – the film transfers look terrific! It cost a little more than I had imagined, but it was well worth it. You did a great job and be sure that I will recommend your work anytime. I already did my first DVD with some of the clips and it just looks great!

Emilio Suarez
Niwot, Colorado

Our Process

1. Contact & Drop Off

When you’re ready to get started, pick a location to drop off your media and book an appointment, or simply stop by a location that accepts walk-ins. During your initial appointment, we will gather the details, determine which services best suit your needs, and provide an estimate of cost and timing. If your appointment is via phone, we will make arrangements for you to drop off your media.

2. We Digitize!

Once we receive your media, we will follow up with any questions and update our estimates. When you approve, we’ll start digitizing! All of our work is done in-house, locally. We use state-of-the-art equipment and software, and we have multiple quality checks built into our processes. Our goal is to deliver the best possible digital replication of your media, arranged into the final product you envision.

3. Enjoy, Share & Preserve

We’ll call you when your project is ready for pickup. Once home, you can conveniently enjoy your newly digitized film, video, photo & audio memories on all your devices. It’s also easy to share them with family and friends, and safely store them for future generations. We provide a free backup for 30 days, giving you time to order copies and safeguard your investment. We look forward to working with you!

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Convert Floppy Disks to Digital and Secure Your Important Files From Loss

Your important files shouldn’t be trapped on outdated or failing media. Our professional floppy disk transfer service is designed to rescue those precious files. We convert floppy disks to digital, transferring data using a professional reader from old 3½-inch floppies to modern, reliable storage such as USB, USB-C, external hard drive or SSD. We specialize in helping you transfer floppy disks to USB. Our transfer process ensures your documents, spreadsheets, software, or archived data are consolidated and accessible. We perform integrity checks on all data transfers to verify every file is copied completely.

Every project to import your files off your floppy disks is handled with care by our trained staff in our secure, local labs. We have the proper floppy drive hardware to read your disks and download the data for use on your Mac or PC. For families and businesses looking to protect their data archive, our services to copy files off 3.5-inch floppy disks help ensure your files are accessible for future use. Visit one of our Denver Metro or Boulder locations to get started today.

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Here are the reasons to consider capturing your film in 2K or HD instead of SD:

  • Film predates pixels and lines of resolution. The image on film is generated when one or more layers of a random pattern of silver halide crystals react to light, and are retained or washed away and replaced by dyes in the developing process.The image detail generated by this process can appear anywhere on the surface of the film.
  • The more lines of resolution we scan with, the more of this random placement of image detail is captured and converted to pixels. Standard definition (SD) captures 720x480 pixels of detail, high-definition (HD) captures 1920x1080 pixels of detail, and 2K captures 2560x1440 pixels of detail.
  • Sometimes, scanning with more lines captures more of the “grain” of the film, or the crystals that remain on the surface of the film. The grain is more obvious in film that was produced with larger crystals (R8), and less obvious in film that was produced with smaller crystals (S8, 16mm). For some R8 film, scanning in SD softens the detail of the grain making it less disruptive to the image.
  • These days, with HD, 2K and 4K viewing environments - and larger and larger screens - more, smaller pixels is always better because the smaller pixels provide more detail and a smoother image as the image is enlarged to a big-screen.

SD can never reproduce the full image detail on a film frame because SD video has a fixed pixel pattern with a density of 720x480 pixels, and the pixels that make up the image are always in the same place from one video frame to the next. But film has a random grain pattern, and the image created by the grains of crystals is in a totally different place from one film frame to the next. These random grains each carry a bit of the detail that make up the complete picture and, at running speed, the random grains overlap each other on the retina of your eye to significantly increase the amount of apparent detail. This is called “accumulative resolution”. If you transfer your 8mm home movies to SD video, even with the very best SD camera, your detail will be limited by the coarse, fixed pixel pattern inherent in SD video. Of course, HD and 2K have a fixed pixel pattern, too, but the number of pixels are so great and the pattern is so insignificant, that HD and 2K are like a fine silk stocking compared to the burlap weave of SD. 

Our high definition (HD) film capture offers resolution gains of 667% over a standard definition (SD) capture (more than 6 times better). Our HD capture is not a mere up-conversion from an SD source. Our HD film capture equipment uses a high definition image sensor to take in 5 times the square pixels per frame of film that our SD machine is not capable of picking up. For 8mm films the HD image sensor generates greater than 4000 pixels per inch. Thus, the accumulative resolution effect found in film can be more readily seen in an HD transfer than in an SD transfer.