03-11-2007, 07:44 PM
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Who still has a 3 1/2 floppy in your computer?
Just thought I ask! I know I do in two of my desktops and one of my laptops.
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03-11-2007, 08:01 PM
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Yep!
I keep an external USB floppy drive around too.
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03-11-2007, 08:05 PM
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Yep...I do
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03-11-2007, 09:54 PM
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I've got a LS-120 drive (I originally got it to save the IRQ on my previous system). I occasionally copy things to a floppy, and use it especially to load Raid drivers during XP installs.
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03-11-2007, 10:03 PM
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I don't anymore, but if you do, remember: Don't Copy That Floppy!
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03-11-2007, 10:56 PM
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still got one!
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03-12-2007, 05:40 AM
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Oh yeah - you never know when you might have to do something like load up SATA or SCSI drivers at boot time.
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03-12-2007, 06:23 AM
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can't you load those drivers onto a flash drive or something?
i don't. i think macs went away with them awhile ago.
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03-12-2007, 07:21 AM
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Yup I still have one....
Mostly for use with my Ghost 2003 boot disk and Memtest86 test disk.
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03-12-2007, 07:29 AM
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 What's a floppy drive?
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03-12-2007, 07:55 AM
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I have one on my desktop still, but only because it's a few years old.
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03-12-2007, 07:30 PM
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got one external USB floppy drive, with a 5-in-1 card reader. havent used it, but you never know.
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03-12-2007, 11:02 PM
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I still have a couple older computers with a 3 1/2 drive, but any of my newer computers don't have them. I usually don't have a need for a floppy drive anymore. I may pick up a USB drive and eliminate the built-in drives form all my computers.
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03-18-2007, 01:37 PM
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Yep, I have one. I had to look 'cause I didn't know if it was still in there or not.
I'm amazed that a floppy is still standard for RAID drivers. Why can't they be loaded via CD or flash??
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03-18-2007, 02:49 PM
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I have a 3 1/2 floppy/Almost all Memory Card Drive. 7 in 1 or something.
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03-18-2007, 03:49 PM
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That's because XP's installer is based off code going back to NT 4.0 (if not even NT 3.51 -- hard to say), and Microsoft never bothered to re-write the code to accommodate USB flash drives (partly because USB flash drives didn't become mainstream until after XP was released). For CDs however, I do agree they could have gone that route -- as even in 2001, CD-Rs were inexpensive enough to "waste" one for a driver CD. All this is fixed with Vista however...and for those with XP, you can always try slipstreaming the drivers into a custom install CD.
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03-18-2007, 05:11 PM
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My PC still has one in it, but only to load the SATA drivers when I install XP. Of course my Macs don't.
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03-18-2007, 05:35 PM
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oh man. that's priceless!
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03-19-2007, 01:12 AM
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i do
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03-20-2007, 12:52 PM
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I have one but have no idea what it is for.
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03-20-2007, 05:09 PM
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Chief of Naval Operations
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who has a 5.25?
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03-20-2007, 06:45 PM
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Chief of Naval Operations
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Oh...you're talking about a disk drive.  |
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03-20-2007, 06:48 PM
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i have one laying around the house somewhere. ehehe...i have no idea why i haven't thrown it away yet.
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