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AAARRRRRRRGH! Or, how I managed to slide an SD card in my A drive slot
RTSDaddy2:
:banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:
Well, as if I didn't have enough going on. I went to put my SD card from my Wii into the SD slot on my PC to do some work on it....and as MANY TIMES as I've done so in the dark, this time I missed my slot and my brain went "Damn that feels large...." just about the time I let go of the front edge of the card and realized what I'd done....I'd inserted the SD card into our 3.5 floppy drive!
To the positive, it really doesn't hurt things too much. For the moment, I've lost Wii save data, but really no biggie...can recreate all of it in short order. We really don't use the 3.5 floppy drive much anymore either, so no real loss there at the moment either. Just frustrating as hell - wife will probably want to kill me in the morning.
Is it very hard to take a 3.5 drive out of a PC and apart? :D
crashwg:
Shouldn't take more than 5 minutes to get the drive out and apart enough to get the card out. Once you get it out chuck the floppy drive in the trash and press F12 or Del or whatever your motherboard requires and uncheck whatever setting there might be for the floppy drive...
Or you could go at it with a flashlight and some tweezers. Make sure you turn the PC off first.
Nipedley:
I was going to say, if it was me I'd have a go with tweezers it should be that difficult to grab, if you couldn't get it vertically (there should be some room but nontheless) you could always get it horizontally. Maybe even a small pair of scissors or something. Worst case scenario take the side of the case off, unscrew floppy drive, cables out and job done :)
I've done similar things myself, usually trying to fit a micro sd or a sony MS duo into my laptop's sd slot, forgetting they need a converter... Tweezers worked wonders there
Malenko:
wow, you have a floppy drive? at least you didnt say 5 1/4 floppy
Cakemeister:
My wife once tried to put a CD-ROM in a 5 1/4" floppy drive. It didn't work.
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