dammit!!!! I HATE FLOPPIES SO MUCH!!! but of course everybody does. a while ago when I got my usb flash stick, I thought my days of floppies were finally. unfortunately, no. there are still so many diagnostic programs and such that require floppies. first of all, is there any program that will make a usb flash stick look like a floppy drive for the programs that want one? that would work fine for me since I can boot off usb, but the big place I use floppies is when I'm fixing peoples' computers, and they usually can't boot off of usb. so here's my other question: is there a fairly cheap flash device that can be hooked up the floppy port and look like a floppy to the bios?
a floppy simulator, please!
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RalfHutter
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Why not just use a floppy drive and stop jumping through hoops to try and find something to replace it? As much trouble as people go through to try and make bootable CDrs and use USB sticks it seem like it'd be waaay easier just to keep a FDD in the machine for the occaisional time when it's needed. It's not like it's expensive.
because floppies are designed to break automatically at the worst time. they also are a good harbor for viruses, and tons of my floppies are already infected.
kd7fhd
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If tons of your floppies are infected, you'd better check your hard drive!!!
floppies don't just create viruses on thier own. they get infected by other means, such as putting a floppy in a drive on a computer that is already infected!
and in case no one has noticed, good old DOS (which everyone likes to diss) is still required to repair a computer whenever windows f***s up. it would be in your interest to learn some of the old dos commands while you are putting your floppy drive back in your computer.
floppies don't just create viruses on thier own. they get infected by other means, such as putting a floppy in a drive on a computer that is already infected!
and in case no one has noticed, good old DOS (which everyone likes to diss) is still required to repair a computer whenever windows f***s up. it would be in your interest to learn some of the old dos commands while you are putting your floppy drive back in your computer.
geez ive been using a floppy drive that i purchased with my 386sx25 over 10 years ago and it sill works. maybe i got lucky
Originally posted by: Need4Speed
geez ive been using a floppy drive that i purchased with my 386sx25 over 10 years ago and it sill works. maybe i got lucky
I think he means the Disk's not the drives. Someone was telling me that floppies have somewhere around a 40% failure rate. Probably because most of us just throw our floppies around and don't take care of them. The are highly suseptible to magnetic fields so even if your cellphone rings too close to it its possible for it to be f'd up.
dullard
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USB sticks and CDs will have the chance of holding viruses as well. Yes floppies are inferior, but there still has been no good replacement for them. Burning a CD takes much longer (especially for small files), many computers cannot boot from CDs or USB sticks, etc. They are just perfect for so many uses, give us any good reason why not to use them (other than saving $8 on the price of the drive)? So no, not everybody hates them.
is there some reason BIOSes today aren't making USB flash disks bootable? I don't see why not when we have IDE, SCSI, Floppy, Network, and USB/Firewire harddrives bootable...
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