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My friend's parts arrived but I realized I didn't order a Floppy: Good move or bad move?

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Chobits

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I was going to install WinXP Pro and for some reason getting a floppy blew past my mind. His mobo is a 8rda+ and I'm wondering if he doesn't have a floppy he'll have problems. I know I can get acess to one but I know the floppy is getting to be obselete.

Do I need a floppy or not? The pc is being built from strach so there is no old software that needs a floppy from drivers.

Or will the mobo demand a floppy drive?
 
That motherboard doesn't demand a floppy. I have it. However, if you ever have to do a boot recovery from a recovery disk and can't access your CD drives for some reason...you are SOL.
 
I have not put floppys into computers except by request for over two years. So far I have had very few complaints. In this age of bootable cd's and usb drives they are fast becoming obsolete. It only took about 15 years...
 
If this board supports booting from USB, then I would get a USB pen drive in lieu of a floppy. They are a bit more expensive, depending on size, but infinitely more useful.

If no USB booting, then a floppy can be useful at times, worth the $10 IMO.
 
The floppy costs next to nothing, but a pen drive will set you back around ~$25 wangs. Why NOT get the floppy? 😕
 
You should at least have the floppy around and available if you aren't going to install it. I rarely use my floppy drive, but am not comfortable doing BIOS upgrades from CD-RW and if I want/need to install drivers for a RAID/IDE controller I need the floppy during Windows setup. You'll hardly every use it, but it doesn't pay to not have it IMO. And, as someone said, they are what, $10?

\Dan
 
It'll probably come in handy for BIOS flashes and the like. Making a bootable floppy is usually quicker and easier than making a bootable CD.
 
I prefer LS120, as it allows you to use floppies and also gives the 120MB support which makes it a bit more usefull. Of course I use all SCSI for my drives otherwise so I have plenty of unused IDE ports.
 
I bought a floppy with my machine... I got everything working but that. Then I had a fire in my machine (Thanks a lot Antec:|) and lost the floppy drive. I don't miss it.
 
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