AAARRRRRRRGH! Or, how I managed to slide an SD card in my A drive slot

[RTSDaddy2]

     

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?       

[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.

[shmokes]

I doubt that you need to take it apart.  Just slide it out of the PC, turn it so the slot faces the floor, hold open the little door and shake until your card falls out.

[RTSDaddy2]

The shake thing worked.  The reason it didn't work last night when I first got the  thing stuck was because Zippy here forgot to hold the drive door open so it COULD fall out.      

When my wife helped with it this morning, it just plopped right out.  Took the whole amount of 2 seconds.   

Well, at least it wasn't a major fix!  Thank y'all!

(and just for the record - Malenko, man do you honestly think I'd have told THIS crowd what size floppy drive I have?  I'd have never heard the last of it had it been 5 1/4   )

[Ginsu Victim]

I doubt that you need to take it apart.  Just slide it out of the PC, turn it so the slot faces the floor, hold open the little door and shake until your card falls out.

This was my first thought. It was the most obvious route.

[protokatie]

wow, you have a floppy drive? at least you didnt say 5 1/4 floppy

Gimme back my C64 with its completely infalable and parfect 1541 drive! Hell, I'll even take my ol' C128D and CP/M disks over the POS's they make these days... (and yes, I am THAT OLD) 


EDIT: Forgot to misspell perfect as well... (anyone who has ever owned a 1541 knows why I did that)

[CCM]

ahh the old 1541!   I was cleaning out our storage area yesterday and came across my C64,  2 1541 disk drives, and my old EPYX joystick!  I am going to set it up this week and see if they still work!

[protokatie]

The C64 and Joy will, but I would bet dollars on pounds that both 1541's are bricked... :<

Good on the find tho, bet that sent your mind back 20 years!

[CCM]

It sure does!  I just wish I still had all my old games.  I was stupid and gave them away years ago.  The ones I do still have are:  Bards Tale 1 and 3, Might and Magic 2, and Pool of Radiance. 

[protokatie]

DORK!

Ok, you can't be a full dork if you dont have Zork 1,2 and 3 (and maybe Zork zero)

You enter a storage area. There is dust here.
You see a canvas cloth covering some objects.
It is dusty, you are likely to sneeze alot.
The exits are to the south and east.

:

[RTSDaddy2]

Then I definitely qualify as dork by Katie's standards...had all four.

[danny_galaga]

What is this 'floppy drive' of which you speak?

[HaRuMaN]

...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...."

 

No mangle needed.

[CCM]

DORK!

Ok, you can't be a full dork if you dont have Zork 1,2 and 3 (and maybe Zork zero)

You enter a storage area. There is dust here.
You see a canvas cloth covering some objects.
It is dusty, you are likely to sneeze alot.
The exits are to the south and east.

:

I definitely had Zork 1, 2, and 3 along the way.  I'm pretty sure I still have the PC version of Zork 1.   Back in the C64 days, I actually spent hours mapping out Zork 1 on graph paper!

[CCM]

http://www.infocom-if.org/downloads/downloads.html