Ahhh the old days where floppies were the daddeh. These days unless you want to flash your BIOS, who needs em' ? Most of us boot off the CDs install our OSes and life goes on, but do you still have a floppy drive in your box?
...I dont![]()
Hell yes, can't live without it!
Its installed but I dont use it much...
Not fitted but I have one as a backup.
Whats a floppy drive?!?
Ahhh the old days where floppies were the daddeh. These days unless you want to flash your BIOS, who needs em' ? Most of us boot off the CDs install our OSes and life goes on, but do you still have a floppy drive in your box?
...I dont![]()
Last edited by bsodmike; 14-08-2003 at 11:25 AM.
got about 3 floppy disk drives in the spared cupboard at home, none in the machines themselves tho
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Nope, not had a floppy in in any of my machines for over a year now.
Just don't have use for one, all my portable storage is done using CF cards![]()
Nope
kind of annoying that bios tools and harddisk tools still require booting into DOS thoughbut i have a bootable 98 CDR
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On the topic of old hardware like floppy drives.
I wish companies would get rid of such legacy ports like the lpt port, comm ports, ps2 ports, etc. I know the Abit MAX series did a lot for it, but not all legacy ports were rid of.
You could put a lot more good features on the back plate (like more RJ45 ports and more usb and sound ports) instead of these old and big ports that are a waste of time.
Personally, I haven't used a floppy drive in over 3 years or so since Win2k came out, I haven't looked back since![]()
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Unfortunatly when your at school floppies tend to be used way too much because its the only thing people understand how to use!
A mess of floppies with MS word documents...
Please can we have more compact flash!
I have a floppy drive, not installed though......
Simple reason.... It doesn't look pretty in my case
In the scenario of the W32.Blaster.Worm, a mates Meg usb drive thingy came in very handy for getting the relevant patches etc![]()
A what?![]()
?? Floppy??? erm ok.. thought this thread was computer related...
Just one... sitting on my desk, not plugged into anything![]()
Got about 10 floppy drives not used, had brought orginally for
some Diskless Crunchers running Linux, they served as initial
boot devices before loading main operating system off server.
Plus 1 * dual 5.25 & 3.5 all in one, serves as my get me out
of trouble device if ever needed, got various pre-made
recovery disks made up and Bios-reflash disks.
But all in all not used for ages now and most computers
support alternative boot devices now anyway as mentioned
in earlier posts.
I have one just for back up. I can put it in the case if i need to use it but i do think they are still useful
Out of the 5 machines I have hear not a single one has a floppy fitted into it, I do have one has a last resort type of thing though.
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I got one, only use it when I need to bring docuements to school. It's all the school machines will accept :S
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