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Main => Everything Else => Topic started by: Kaytrim on January 30, 2007, 04:44:53 pm
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The Death of the old floppy disk is near at hand.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6314251.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6314251.stm)
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that floppy has about 3-4 years of life yet.
To install SATA drivers you need a floppy drive - sure, Vista will fix that but I would expect another 3-4 years of XP use.
Does anyone else remember when floppies were fairly reliable? I remember having 2 floppies in my book bag all through college to store documents. Now, if I copy something to a floppy, I'm luck if it makes it across the room to a different computer.
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Does anyone else remember when floppies were fairly reliable? I remember having 2 floppies in my book bag all through college to store documents. Now, if I copy something to a floppy, I'm luck if it makes it across the room to a different computer.
man I'm doing some volunteer work fixing old donated PCs that are donated to Habitat for Humanity to be resold, and I end up having to make 5 or 6 boot disks before one actually works on a PC....
same way with drivers....
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I remember having 2 floppies in my book bag all through college to store documents. Now, if I copy something to a floppy, I'm luck if it makes it across the room to a different computer.
Across the room, I can't even go from desktop to laptop at the same desk. I had to buy a flashdrive, because cd's with 1 meg files were getting wasteful.
Mac just stopped including floppy drives. I thought Microsoft was using shock therapy to make us voluntarily stop.
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Yeah, their decline in demand has caused quality to fall through the floorboards. Dell PCs still come with floppy drives by default when you're buying business class workstations. I manually remove them from the configuration of my machines. I pretty much do not allow my users to work with floppy disks. I get some complaints, but they are better than the, "My computer won't read this disk and it's the only copy I have of such-and-such vital spreadsheet I've been working on for the last three months," ones.
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Well I had troubles moving things around on floppies back in the days too. Often the floppy would work only on the computer I used to write to it.
Trouble with floppy drives these days is that they never get used. When I'm called to repair a computer the floppy drive is usualy full of dust. A cleaning floppy often does help reviving these things.
Actually, I usually just create a bootable CD from a floppy. Works much better.
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Actually, I usually just create a bootable CD from a floppy. Works much better.
Damn, I'd love to know how you make a CD out of a floppy? :laugh2:
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that reminds me, i have my resume on a floppy. ive been meaning to do something with it but the bloody floppy drive on my machine pretty much NEVER worked...
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Actually, I usually just create a bootable CD from a floppy. Works much better.
Damn, I'd love to know how you make a CD out of a floppy? :laugh2:
Sorry, how is that funny? I do that with Nero.
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He means physically changing a floppy to a CD.
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Actually, I usually just create a bootable CD from a floppy. Works much better.
Damn, I'd love to know how you make a CD out of a floppy? :laugh2:
If you've never done it, the process of creating a bootable CD requires a bootable floppy to pull the boot files from.
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He means physically changing a floppy to a CD.
Apparently the "wetting yourself laughing" smiley is no longer able to convey the "this was a stupid pun" subtext to the masses. ???
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If you've never done it, the process of creating a bootable CD requires a bootable floppy to pull the boot files from.
Or the image of a bootable floppy. It can actually be done a number of ways but the burning app will need someplace to pull the boot files from because they aren't licensed to come in the burning app itself.
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If you've never done it, the process of creating a bootable CD requires a bootable floppy to pull the boot files from.
Or the image of a bootable floppy. It can actually be done a number of ways but the burning app will need someplace to pull the boot files from because they aren't licensed to come in the burning app itself.
I forgot which software it was, but it came with a free version of DOS (not from M$) to create bootable disks yourself.