buletov Posted October 4, 2004 Share Posted October 4, 2004 blank CD is cheaper than an empty floppy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoffeeFiend Posted October 4, 2004 Share Posted October 4, 2004 Yes, blank CDs are really cheap, cheaper than my time anyways - but i still don't like to "waste" one.@prathapml no, I was talking primarily to update firmwares, that won't work too well in VMWare (anyone tried to flash the virtual BIOS yet?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted October 4, 2004 Share Posted October 4, 2004 I am midway, I have some machines with onboard floppy drivers and some without.Best thing is to have an external USB one to attach when needed, i.e. bios updating, emergency boot, etc.jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilentRob Posted December 30, 2005 Share Posted December 30, 2005 I've just bought a new 3.5" floppy drive, so I can transfer documents my Dad saves in Word Perfect 5.1 for DOS (apparently lots of people still use that version!) to my computer whenever there's a problem with his computer. It's just easier than having him exit out and send it to my computer over the network, and WPDOS doesn't recognize CDR/DVDR drives... besides those are too slow (lead-in/lead-out) for such small files.All in all, I still think that the floppy is the superior short-term storage method for small files, and it's pretty much universally compatible.Emailing files to myself was usually enough when I had to print term papers on the school printer, but every now and then, I'd get to school to find out that the school network was down, so I would ride back home to put it on a CD-R... that was a pain. I wish I had the wherewithall to put a FDD in my old computers when I was still there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ripken204 Posted December 30, 2005 Share Posted December 30, 2005 prathapml- thx for the virtual floppy drivei have a floppy drive which is an external usb drive that i keep in my desk drawer. i got it for free with my laptop. i only use it for bios upgrades for mobo and gfx card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomcat76 Posted December 30, 2005 Share Posted December 30, 2005 Still use 'em. System drive pre-partitioning with EFDISK.EXE (MasterBooter) and FORMAT.COM; killing hard drives with Norton Disk Editor; MemTest86+; fixing drives with BootMaster Partition Recovery... Not just my own but also the ones I get in from other people for repair/cleaning. It's just more universal, and, as someone said earlier, "I don't like to waste CDs".I used to use a floppy for flashing the BIOS but I leave the BIOS files on a FAT32 partition now, so the floppy is only used to boot into DOS in this case.I've never really liked CDs... They're too small for backups and it takes a long time to burn one of my 4x CD-RWs so I use DVD+RWs instead (which require a DVD-ROM, though). And I switched back to vinyl in 1994... LOLBut I always suggest to other people to try to ditch the floppy. Most of them still want it for "their banking". IMO, this is safer than USB sticks, though, as USB sticks are more likely to be stolen than floppy disks, haha! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Posted December 30, 2005 Share Posted December 30, 2005 What's a floppy drive? Don't have one in my system, Windows doesn't know what it is either thanks to nLite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLXX Posted December 30, 2005 Share Posted December 30, 2005 I still use floppies, for transfers of small files and other things that are too small to put on a CD. I still have a large box of them containing various older programs and data... and I'm one of the few to have a 2.88M drive and some diskettes too. I still have a 5.25" drive in my system between the DVD±RW and the CD-RW, and I'm trying to get an 8" floppy drive installed to read some *very* old 8" floppies someone gave me... I like full backwards compatibility Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomcat76 Posted December 30, 2005 Share Posted December 30, 2005 I used to have a 5.25" drive in my system too until the beginning of this year. I got rid of it because nForce systems (first nForce2 Ultra 400, then nForce4) don't support more than one floppy drive... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ripken204 Posted December 30, 2005 Share Posted December 30, 2005 what about zip drives??my dad uses a zip drive for backup, puts important stuff on there. he has his checkbook on the comp, all his tax stuff, etc. so that is stuff that u definetly dont want to lose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slimzky Posted December 30, 2005 Share Posted December 30, 2005 i removed my floppy drive a year and a half ago... im sick & tired of it because its too slow & it is very sensitive... my relatives & friends used to have their floppy disks inserted on my PC as well as infecting it with viruses from their campus right now, they are obliged to buy a USB stick.. w/c is far way faster & more useful.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IcemanND Posted December 30, 2005 Share Posted December 30, 2005 You're talking about those 5 1/4 inch and 8 inch disks right. Seems like everyone I run into anymore calls the 3 1/2 inch floppies hard disks.I still have a 5 1/4 around here somewhere just incase some other old timer comes by and needs to get something off of one of those disks, happens about twice a year. Otherwise I put the 3 1/2 in the machine when I need it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nerwin Posted December 31, 2005 Share Posted December 31, 2005 I dont really use one that much I only use it for when I have to make a boot disc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldwolf Posted December 31, 2005 Share Posted December 31, 2005 I havent used floppy for about 3 months since I got the Centurion case,but now Im loking at raid with my nice new 3800 x2, I might have to put the floppy drive back in. Ah well its windows Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synapse Posted January 3, 2006 Share Posted January 3, 2006 *remebers the days of installing windows 3.1 from a set of 6 floppy disks..* LOLsince my last post in this topic, i've removed my floppy disk drive.. just isn't important anymore, especially with bartpe cd's packed to the rim with tools.. got a network if i ever need to transfer files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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