Fvcking A, does no one have floppy disks anymore!?

[RbSX]

Blah.. why does Microsoft still employ ancient mediums?

I've got a flash memory stick and a USB key sitting next to me and I need to format my hard drive (without the original CD). Unfortunately none of their boot disk programs will allow me to write to the usb key or the flash memory stick and no one around me has 6, SIX!!!! Floppies!

Damn you microsoft. You're progressive with everything else.. step into the 21st century with your boot mediums!

 

[FoBoT]

use network boot

 

[NogginBoink]

Try booting to a CD. Microsoft is in this century, thank you very much.

(The technical complexities of booting from USB media are not insignificant.)

 

[spanky]

i always have floppies around, but most of the time they are either dead or have errors. die floppies die!

 

[erikistired]

hehe i had to use a driver floppy from a usb nic i have somewhere to flash my bios, it's the only disk i could find that worked!

 

[iamme]

what brand is your HD?

dont' some HD companies have a disk formatting utility on one floppy? (perhaps available for download)

 

[deerslayer]

Why can't you just boot from CD? What OS are you trying to install?

 

[Anubis]

i have a bout 30 of them sitting not 5 feet from me

i also have some spare floppy drives if you are intrested

 

[ggnl]

I have a whole box of floppies, I bought them the last time I had to make the stupid 6 disk boot program.

 

[Injury]

I threw away a box of about 150 floppies last week. I kept about 10 just for the hell of it, but I imagine it won't be long before those go too. Haven't had a floppy drive hooked up for about a year.

 

[rh71]

USB = drivers... which aren't loaded if you aren't in windows.

 

[TwiceOver]

1/4 computers in the house with a floppy drive.

 

[randomlinh]

not all systems can boot via USB... which should be changed, as it would make life so much simpler.

 

[Kelvrick]

Unless its an ancient system, it can boot by cd rom.

And I mean really ancient, or the its a user problem.

 

[Electric Amish]

I have 150 of them here in on my shelf.

 

[pyonir]

I have a floppy in my hand....and i have some floppy disks around here too.

:Q

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: spanky
i always have floppies around, but most of the time they are either dead or have errors. die floppies die!

Yup... exactly the same here. I have droves of them, but most of them are dead.

Well, maybe 30-40% or so....

 

[Ausm]

Floppys suck plain and simple

Ausm

 

[GagHalfrunt]

It was a dark day when AOL started sending out CDs instead of floppies. They were my main supplier.

 

[pulse8]

I don't even have a floppy drive in my computer anymore.

 

[Mo0o]

Originally posted by: pulse8
I don't even have a floppy drive in my computer anymore.

 

[oboeguy]

Originally posted by: RyanSengara
Blah.. why does Microsoft still employ ancient mediums?

I've got a flash memory stick and a USB key sitting next to me and I need to format my hard drive (without the original CD). Unfortunately none of their boot disk programs will allow me to write to the usb key or the flash memory stick and no one around me has 6, SIX!!!! Floppies!

Damn you microsoft. You're progressive with everything else.. step into the 21st century with your boot mediums!

Huh? What do you mean by that? Why do you need six floppies, anyway? If your goal is merely to format that shouldn't be necessary, right?

 

[ActuaryTm]

Originally posted by: NogginBoink
Try booting to a CD. Microsoft is in this century, thank you very much.

Originally posted by: FoBoT
use network boot

 

[Zee]

even win98 boots from cd.

or if you are that far into the future, go burn a cd with the same system files as a boot disk. msdos.sys, command.com, etc etc

 

[purbeast0]

I haven't had a floppy disc in my computer for probably 6 years now.