Those without 3.5" floppy drives -- how do you do it?

[rudeguy]

external floppy...just plug it in when i need it

 

[joecool]

can anybody say multi-boot? i've got dos as one of the boot options on my hd - why waste time booting from a slow floppy when you can do it all from the hd, and faster?!

 

[Sid59]

laptop floppy blew out and 2nd pc floopy is boinked. HOME LAN is your friend. Think imma get a USB portable drive.

 

[toant103]

i have a floppy.

 

[Krassus]

The only reason i still have a floppy drive is because i can no longer find that little plastic lid thingie to cover the spot I haven't used in years though. Oh and for the record, it's 2003 - about time you got rid of Win 98!

 

[yellowperil]

If you're ordering parts for a new system, you can add a $8 Mitsumi floppy and have the shipping cost absorbed with the rest of the components. IMO the benefit of an occasional use outweighs any "bragging rights" of not owning a floppy, whatever they may be

 

I have not used a floppy in a couple of years. I wish Symantec would add a boot floppy image to the Ghost program so pc's without floppy drives could create bootable cd's with a ghost image. or just a Ghost boot cd.

 

[Looney]

Originally posted by: idea
How can you live without one? As far as my BIOS updates, win98 boot disk, memtest86, and other things.. I don't think I could remove mine.

I lived without one for about 6 months, until today when i tried to use 3 sticks of 512mb of samsung ram in my MSI KT3 board, and it wouldn't run stable with them. I wanted to try a bios update, so needed to spend 20 mins looking around for a floppy drive before i could... then spent another 10 mins looking for a floppy disk.

 

[idea]

So far so good, I burned my own bootable CDRW. Used a floppy image from bootdisk.com so I get all the basic dos utils (deltree, format, etc) and I even added pqmagic8 and ghost.exe. I feel a lot better now that my floppy mobo connecter is fried but, I still feel I'll need to use it in the future... I just feel insecure after all these years of living with one. I guess with computers theres no need to be old-fashioned.

 

[SnapIT]

Well, it is as simple as nada to use, it fits well, why would you NOT have one?

Because you are sooo cool or you don't want it to mess up you cooling? both reasons are just as redicilous...

it's cheap, it works, and one day you will wish you had one, can you restart your cd with basic propertied of the pc code and a vga video card? no? of course not, but if you had that cd and an old vga card, you probably could save it... but naaaah, i neeeeed that spot rather than getting a modern case...

 

[MikeO]

Originally posted by: notfred
Why would I need to flash my bios, boot windows98, or use whatever the hell memtest86 is?

lol.. exactly what I was thinking

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: agnitrate
a flop-what?

I haven't used one in like 3 years. Long live booting from CD!

-silver

Same here, I unplugged the thing at least 3 years ago, I wonder if it would even spin up if I plugged it back in.

 

[Zugzwang152]

i think they'll stay around until winxp becomes as outdated as win98 is now. when that happens, dvd burners will be going for <$100, and everyone will have computers that can boot from CD. your win98 boot floppy of today will become a winNT/XP bootable CD

 

[jemcam]

I've got one but it's been broken for six or eight months. I use Asus update to do bios updates. That's the only reason I'd need one if not for Asus update.

 

[Insane3D]

Windows based bios flashers are very common nowadays. Even without it's very easy to flash a bios from a CD. There are very few reason's why, with a halfway up to date system with a burner, that you would need a FDD for.



<---Hasn't used a floppy in at least 3 years and has tons of them laying around idle..

 

[pennylane]

i don't use my floppy drive. however, it's still in the computer. but i found the cables got in the way... so i just unplugged it. i think it's good to have it there just in case i need it. but for now it remains unplugged.

 

[Atlantean]

Well there is this wonderful invention called a cd burner that we use to back up those files or whatever needs backing up. Windows XP anyone... also a cd-rw disk is great cause you can drag and drop the files into the disk.

 

[BeauJangles]

I have my floppy in my computer, but i haven't used it in at least a year.

 

[bleeb]

I don't have a floppy drive and I'm doing fine wihtout it.

I get most things I need from the internet or I simply burn it to CDR and use that.

EDIT: This requires someone with a floppy and a burner

 

[spanky]

i have a floppy drive installed but i RARELY ever use it. i just like to have it... sorta like a security blanket.