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Getting rid of floppy drive - worth it or not? Computer Gurus assemble!!!
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bkenobi:
If you aren't going to use a floppy drive at all, it wouldn't hurt to go into the BIOS and disable the floppy drive controller.  This will keep some things from loading in Windows too, so you could (theoretically anyway) get some resources back.  Be aware that you will have to change some settings in Windows or else it will give you a yellow triangle in your device manager screen.  Just right click it and disable and you're good to go.
severdhed:
alot of times, you will have to disable it in the bios, if you have a Dell.  for whatever reason, Dell Bios setup is completely retarded.  if you have something enabled and it isnt there, it will get stuck and not boot properly.  most PCs dont have this problem, but for whatever reason, most Dell computers do.
nazerine:
Hmmm, makes me think it would be fun to have MAME games on a floppy as a 'cartridge' to play  ;)
Ginsu Victim:

--- Quote from: nazerine on May 26, 2009, 05:08:38 pm ---Hmmm, makes me think it would be fun to have MAME games on a floppy as a 'cartridge' to play  ;)

--- End quote ---

Not really. People gripe about having to push Left-Right for OK, imagine having to pop in a disk?
Grasshopper:
I haven't used a floppy drive for years but I've kept one in my PC mainly out of nostalgia. I figured that as I'm into computer games from the 80s I might as well keep a bit of 80s computer technology in my PC.  ;D

It doesn't actually do any harm and there's always the 0.01% chance that it might be useful oneday.
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