Do you treat your floppy drive with respect?

[hardcandy2]

All this talk of the "The floppy drive is dead' and "Long live the USB flash drive" went by the boards when I looked at the FAQ from the gigabyte MB site. They had posted a rescue file for the Gigabyte P65-DS3 board for folks having trouble with installing Vista on their MB. And guess what, you need a floppy drive. I have used my floppy drive maybe twice in 2 years, but i am glad i have it around.
I love my floppy. I know it is a dying breed and is being bypassed, but when you need one, you REALLY need one. I am going to pet my floppy drive with its cute little interface and the cat hairs stuck in the slot. :heart:

 

[Lord Evermore]

A spare floppy drive and cable is essential (IMO) if you're running systems without one. All the systems I build have a floppy drive installed. It doesn't take up significant resources to have the controller enabled or the drivers loaded, it doesn't slow down bootup or performance, and Windows always shows an A drive anyway, even if you don't have one. They may be crap slow, the disks may randomly decide to be corrupted when they've just been sitting in a box after you saved files to them, but they're still the easiest and cheapest option for quick needs and emergency use. I do use CDRs for BIOS flashing usually, and for diagnostics, but if I have a flash go bad, I want a floppy drive on hand.

 

[SuperNaruto]

I'm probably the only guy that has floppy on every system.. except 2 notebooks that doesn't have internal floppy capability.. in which I have a 4x usb floppy..

I even have over 200 floppy disk.... for the day that we return to the stone ages

 

[wseyller]

I normally put a floppy drive in when I build a system but they are very cheap. The only time lately I ever used a floppy was either installing raid drivers when installing windows. I'm about to install Vista which can install raid drivers from usb and cd-rom now.

 

[ch33zw1z]

I don't keep one installed, but I do have one just in case I need it!

 

[HannibalX]

I know it is a dying breed and is being bypassed, but when you need one, you REALLY need one.

For me I need one any time I reload my PC because Winderz doesn't have drivers for my onboard SATA controller so I have to load the drivers via floppy during setup.

 

[taisingera]

Yes, I treat it with respect, sitting in a spare parts bin with cable free from the dust of the PC case.

 

[Ultralight]

Yes, I absolutely respect the floppy drive. Its great when you need to run MemTest or if you have a small document and you choose to use a floppy disk instead of a USB flash drive.

 

[NuAlphaMan]

Well, I don't put them in my PCs anymore because I found I don't use them. I made a CD with the files I needed from the floppy and use that. If I have drivers I have to use, I go to the website and download them then write them to a CDRW and use that. I was thinking about getting a USB floppy, but they are still a little to pricey for my blood.

 

[spittledip]

I still use them. You still need them for some bios flashing and also to make backup disks and some other utilities. I think they are still essential for some things, but not everyday use or not for the average user.

 

[corkyg]

I have three systems - two have floppy drives. I have too many drawers full of data on floppies to just junk 'em. I don't treat them much - I ignore them until I need one - then I respect the heck out of it.

 

[SparkyJJO]

Originally posted by: Lord Evermore
Windows always shows an A drive anyway, even if you don't have one.

No it doesn't
Only if you forget to set the "Floppy A" in the bios to "none" will it still show up

 

[Lord Evermore]

Originally posted by: SparkyJJO

Originally posted by: Lord Evermore
Windows always shows an A drive anyway, even if you don't have one.

No it doesn't
Only if you forget to set the "Floppy A" in the bios to "none" will it still show up

Never actually having done it myself, I just went by the few mentions I'd seen before.