Floppy Disks

Kitty
Kitty Posts: 2,844
edited July 2007 in The Crudcatcher
I am now glad that in my computing life that I have mainly been able to use the E drive instead of floppies, I'm am now realising how useless the A drive is.
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  • mmm_pie
    mmm_pie Posts: 1,934
    Fantastic.
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  • rubber side up
    rubber side up Posts: 2,150
    I've not had a floppy drive for about 3 years.
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  • davesnothere
    davesnothere Posts: 620
    truly riveting
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  • St.D1ckie
    St.D1ckie Posts: 982
    i concur
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  • roryf
    roryf Posts: 1,335
    I don't have a floppy drive. With modern hardware there is absolutely no need for one, whatsoever.
  • Super Nuts4fsr
    Super Nuts4fsr Posts: 382
    What is your E: Drive?
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  • Super Nuts4fsr
    Super Nuts4fsr Posts: 382
    I Prefer my J: Drive though :shock:
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  • John
    John Posts: 2,499
    Il just use my W:, T: and F: drives instead.
  • rubber side up
    rubber side up Posts: 2,150
    250gb sata drive as portable storage :D
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  • Drfabulous0
    Drfabulous0 Posts: 1,539
    Yep floppies are pointless, hard is better, just ask my wife.
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  • Big Red S
    Big Red S Posts: 26,890
    USB booting isn't stable or standard enough for me to abandon floppies yet.

    It's getting there, though - I don'f feel a great need to stockpile...
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  • Matt
    Matt Posts: 5,288
    Big Red S wrote:
    USB booting isn't stable or standard enough for me to abandon floppies yet.

    It's getting there, though - I don'f feel a great need to stockpile...

    Yeah, still need floppies for flashing BIOS's and stuff still.
  • rubber side up
    rubber side up Posts: 2,150
    Matt wrote:
    Big Red S wrote:
    USB booting isn't stable or standard enough for me to abandon floppies yet.

    It's getting there, though - I don'f feel a great need to stockpile...

    Yeah, still need floppies for flashing BIOS's and stuff still.

    I'm pretty sure mine will flash the bios from USB
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  • Matt
    Matt Posts: 5,288
    rubber side up wrote:
    Matt wrote:
    Big Red S wrote:
    USB booting isn't stable or standard enough for me to abandon floppies yet.

    It's getting there, though - I don'f feel a great need to stockpile...

    Yeah, still need floppies for flashing BIOS's and stuff still.

    I'm pretty sure mine will flash the bios from USB

    As Avi says, it's still not that reliable or standard enough. My current board won't do it, hopefully my next one will.
  • Big Red S
    Big Red S Posts: 26,890
    Yeah, but few will. And some motherboards boot off some USB sticks but not others, or only ones that are partitioned in the right way or the right colour or something.

    USB booting is far too unreliable for me to remove my floppy drive.
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  • WillGTJumper
    WillGTJumper Posts: 505
    Drfabulous0 good one there

    and i hate floppys you get that slow wait as they load up
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