xenon2050 Posted September 30, 2008 Share Posted September 30, 2008 Well, if someone tried to use floppies to copy 700GBs of movies, well that is really sad... It'd be cheaper to buy a super computer... lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James_A Posted October 4, 2008 Share Posted October 4, 2008 I cannot resist as well, sorry. In MY times, we would have used :486,112 3.5" 1440 K floppies583,334 5.25" 1200 K floppies1,944,445 5.25" 360 K floppies ...Well, if you supply the floppies, I still have drives to read each of those. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcarle Posted October 5, 2008 Share Posted October 5, 2008 Ironically, you can still install a 5.25" Floppy Drive into a modern PC. Who would have thought that a technology introduced in 1976 could still be installed in a PC 32 years later? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xerces8 Posted November 29, 2008 Share Posted November 29, 2008 You'd be surprised how much stuff from the seventies (and eighties) is still in every new PC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weEvil Posted November 29, 2008 Share Posted November 29, 2008 (edited) P.S. 700GB is AFTER deleting all the stuff I can live without If its not media files then compress it with 7zip or WinRAR.You'd be surprised how much stuff from the seventies (and eighties) is still in every new PC You mean like transistors, power cords... etc. Edited November 29, 2008 by weEvil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xerces8 Posted November 29, 2008 Share Posted November 29, 2008 P.S. 700GB is AFTER deleting all the stuff I can live without If its not media files then compress it with 7zip or WinRAR.If there are only some bad sectors, overwriting them should do the trick.MAYBE "chkdsk /r" does that.Otherwise, if you can find out which file has the bad sectors, overwrite that file (you can not save it anyway). The simplest way to do that is to get a "secure erase" utility and "securely" erase the file (secure erasing is nothing else but overwriting it).You'd be surprised how much stuff from the seventies (and eighties) is still in every new PC You mean like transistors, power cords... etc.No. ISA, gate A20, many ridiculous timers and many more, that will only make your head hurt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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