Originally Posted by
gfunkdave
Hah, their solution is to buy an old Mac.
In any case, the disk I'm trying to read is a 1.44 MB HD floppy, which according to that article a USB floppy drive should be able to read.
Ok, if it is 1.44 MB HD floppy then the main task would be to find a software that can read the disk, assuming of course that the disk has not become corrupted. I would probably try next some GNU/Linux OS, for example Ubuntu, possibly from Live-media (DVD, USB-stick) and see if it can recognize the disk in some form. If the disk is still readable, at least it should be possible create a disk image file of the floppy media. With the image file, it might be bit easier to investigate various methods to extract some data from the disk.