Do you still use a floppy drive?

[ColemontHD]

Honestly, why are these still around? They corrupt easy, hold absolutely nothing, and very bulky. Gah...what do you still use it for?

 

[FoBoT]

no

 

[MaxDepth]

My floppy went flippy. I still have a couple on the shelf in case I need to boot from disk. I have older machines in my network that run NT 4 and Win2K.

 

[Golgatha]

I still use it for Hit F6 to install RAID drivers.

 

[Trikat]

Not anymore since I got a mobo that doesn't need the sata drivers.

 

[iRONic]

Originally posted by: Golgatha
I still use it for Hit F6 to install RAID drivers.

 

[Barfo]

nope

 

[Beau]

Funny story: A few months ago, someone in my company sent a company-wide email out asking if anyone had a 3.5" floppy drive that they could borrow to load some old files onto their computer. One of the older senior sales execs replied to his buddies

I have something old that is about 3.5" and floppy(on cold days that is) that still carries a punch but I don't think it will solve your problem.

What he didn't realize was that he had accidentally hit the "Reply-All" button... so not only did his buddies get the email, but so did everyone else in the company. Man, the sh*t storm that exploded from that was funny to watch....

 

[overclock]

Originally posted by: Golgatha
I still use it for Hit F6 to install RAID drivers.

Check out msfn.org to learn how to integrate all mobo drivers.
nlite is also a great tool

I upgraded to the P180 case back in June and haven't installed my floppy drive yet.

I have one need for it every blue moon. I just borrow the external USB floppy drive from work.

 

[dullard]

They are the perfect tool for some uses. But the number of uses is slowly dwindling.

 

[dennilfloss]

Yup, for making and restoring drive images.

 

[keeleysam]

I used mine to flash my BIOS just yesterday.

 

[FelixDeCat]

Hell yes I use floppies. And damn the industry for almost completely phasing them out. :|

 

[alembic5]

for an occasional bios flash, but that's it. I integrated my SATA drivers into my custom XP SP2 disc.

 

[mrSHEiK124]

1. For Norton Ghost
2. BIOS updating
3. F6 for RAID, AFAIK Vista supports loading drivers from USB drives and the like

 

[Fern]

Yeah, I keep 'em around.

Have never purchased one seperately, just pull out of old PCs. I use mine for running memtest etc.

Fern

 

[chambersc]

I think floppy went the way of those HUGE disks. I still remember grade school with those BIG things.

 

[Ronin]

Still use a floppy..until I start keeping track of my nLite installs.

 

[essasin]

I used it once to install raid drivers

 

[judasmachine]

it's still there, but i don't use it.

 

[Atheus]

My dad asked me to get something off a 10 year old floppy disk the other day - I told him we no longer support that format. This did not go down well

 

[Shadowknight]

I have them anyway, so I put them in any machines that I already have and am just upgrading. On my main rig I use the extra RAID channels as normal IDE ones and have to have the drivers on floppy when I reinstall Windows. About two months ago, I replaced the standard floppy with a 7-in-1 media reader, so I have a floppy with something to read my digital camera card; my camera is an old type that uses a proprietary serial link that I lost and can't replace easily, so it works out.

 

[monk3y]

Flash drive's replaced it for me.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Beau
Funny story: A few months ago, someone in my company sent a company-wide email out asking if anyone had a 3.5" floppy drive that they could borrow to load some old files onto their computer. One of the older senior sales execs replied to his buddies

I have something old that is about 3.5" and floppy(on cold days that is) that still carries a punch but I don't think it will solve your problem.

What he didn't realize was that he had accidentally hit the "Reply-All" button... so not only did his buddies get the email, but so did everyone else in the company. Man, the sh*t storm that exploded from that was funny to watch....

I haven't used a floppy drive in years.

I actually have a Zip drive in my computer, but it's only there to fill the hole.

 

[Rock Hydra]

I have one in my PC. I'm not actually sure if it even works, I haven't used it...at all since I got it in 2001. I'll probably buy another one when I build my next PC...but probably after that, I won't even bother.