Floppy Disks, gone or completely forgotten?

[IcemanND]

Windows 3.1 from 6 disks how about a windows 95 upgrade from I beleive it was 16 diskettes.

[DigeratiPrime]

this thread is obselete j/k

i have one drive i keep in the basement at home in case i need to upgrade the BIOS on one of the computers. Pathetic how we sometimes still need to flash by floppy. I probably dig it out once a year.

[techguy21801]

i still use'em for driver disks

and boot disks

i got a 5.25 floppy drive in my basement stills works too

[jcarle]

You can't kill a floppy drive. When your CD-Rom won't boot and your Hard Drive won't boot, the only thing that's garanteed to boot everytime is your Floppy.

Also, unless you slipstream your drivers, a floppy is absolutely necessary when installed text-mode setup drivers for RAID and SATA.

[boggen]

i wish they would disappear and never return!!!

its the stinking old folks!!!, every time i go to help someone its almost mandatory they have a floppy drive because the still don't know how to use a cdr cdrw dvdr dvdrw and the pc is prolly not new enough to have usb ports.

[Press any key]

Did not come with my Acer Notebook, and I've never been happier; for over a year now.

<<- Operating equipment without a FLOPPY

If I get another desktop, I don't want a floppy. Have BIOS boot from C: to speed up, but can just press F2 and change to DVD-CDRW to boot if required.

[Stead]

I've noticed no one likes floppies until they get a problem! and personally i find it highly annoying diggign around for a floppy drive, or taking one out of another computer because the computer that has a problem doesn't have a floppy drive...

for £3 its not exactly a huge loss, but it does help a great deal in certain situations

[nmX.Memnoch]

Windows 3.1 from 6 disks how about a windows 95 upgrade from I beleive it was 16 diskettes.

Office 95 from 25.