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WARM: Dell now has the option with no floppy for 20 less

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Wei

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just got the top of the line machine from dell, and something looks funny about it. then i realized that the floppy drive was missing. so i check on the dell's site and found out that they now have the option to build a system with no floopy drive. which is 20 less

maybe this is a old news, but new to me, and maybe some of you
 
Hey, not bad considering most folks have a floppy or five lying around doing nothing. 🙂 Floppy's are $8-$10 anyway...sounds good to me. 🙂
 
It's a little bit of a deal considering I see Teac floppy drives at the swaps for around $8.00. If you need one, install your own and save a few bux. 🙂
 
the one thing that doesn't go wrong is the floppy drive. You threw your 486's away but kept your floppy drives, didn't you? Now you can sell it back to Dell for a few bugs! 😀
 
Originally posted by: GtPrOjEcTX
yep, they are going to push the USB pen drives now to replace the good ol' flopster
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Um....you can't use USB unless you have an OS installed. But I see what you're getting at; the whole boot-from-CD thing, right? 🙂
 
Originally posted by: MichaelD
Originally posted by: GtPrOjEcTX
yep, they are going to push the USB pen drives now to replace the good ol' flopster
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Um....you can't use USB unless you have an OS installed. But I see what you're getting at; the whole boot-from-CD thing, right? 🙂
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You can boot from USB if your BIOS supports it. Most new motherboards have a boot option "USB FDD" which I assume it stands for USB Floppy Disc Drive. I was able to use a Toshiba USB Floppy to boot off of my ECS K7SEM v3.0 motherboard.
 
Originally posted by: 3point14
Originally posted by: MichaelD
Originally posted by: GtPrOjEcTX
yep, they are going to push the USB pen drives now to replace the good ol' flopster
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Um....you can't use USB unless you have an OS installed. But I see what you're getting at; the whole boot-from-CD thing, right? 🙂
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You can boot from USB if your BIOS supports it. Most new motherboards have a boot option "USB FDD" which I assume it stands for USB Floppy Disc Drive. I was able to use a Toshiba USB Floppy to boot off of my ECS K7SEM v3.0 motherboard.
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OR... you can also boot from a USB pen drive.
 
Old news but it's impressive that it is a $20 discount. You know they get them in bulk for probably $7 or something like that. Considering I get my for $20 and I don't buy bulk. Seems like a pretty good discount.
 
I would guess you dont get the dell floppy bezel when you select no FDD, so if you plan on putting a $8 generic in it will look sucky
 
Originally posted by: oslama
Floppies Forever 🙂
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Or at least until MS updates their NT-based OSes to be able to accept alternative media-storage devices for install-time device-driver loading. Currently, NT, W2K, and I'm pretty sure XP, still require a good old real floppy-disk drive to load boot-time (usually storage, IDE or SCSI-controller) device-drivers.
 
yeah so how do you get over the whole xp not booting without a floppy???????????????

i didn't put a floppy into my new box and xp kept stoping during boot and i had to put a floppy in.
 
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