When is the last time you used a FLOPPY disk?
 

And I mean the 3½ inch, not the 5¼! Also, I should say, by "use" I do not mean: to level out uneven table legs, etc.

i looked some pics i found on an old one last year?

my new computer doesn't have an A drive.

Yeah, please vote.

I used one today, right now, to pre-load RAID drivers during an XP install. This still only can be done with floppy, apparently.

Well, we used a 5.25 in the last year as well. With an old original IBM PC.

I would like to note that in my family (both parents in the computer tech industry) we never referred to the 3-1/2" disks as floppy disks. Because the 5-1/4" were actually floppy, you see, while the smaller ones did not flop, they were stiff. We called them "crunchy" disks to differentiate.


Yes, seriously.

I just tried out my new old USB 3.5" floppy drive on my Dell at work today. No disk, but it worked.

RAID drivers.

FreeDOS image for Intel Cards
 

That's what I did last week...built another Ultimate Boot CD with the Intel flash update utility for their NIC cards so we can reboot the servers over the IP KVM and enable advanced networking features on them.

I have a USB floppy drive in my lap top bag ,
and I Keep a spare A drive in my truck ,
some time I have to reload Old programs and some of the existing A drives go SQUISH when you put a floppy in them

Hey, it's FOUR and a half inches! and it isn't always floppy!


Oh, wait, disk. Sorry.


I have some at home, still have a machine to read them, don't think I've used one since ... 2005.


: blinks :


WTF did he just say?

My home PC went tits up a few months ago. The BOOT.INI file got corrupted and I had to recreate it so I needed to use the restore disk. Well, it didn't work, but I had created a bootable 3 1/2 and installed certain boot files (using attrib -r).

Anyway, I got it booted and got enough of the BOOT.INI file repaired to where it would recognize the partition and boot up. Then I used the Restore CD and repaired it all.

Sure beats the hell out of buying a new PC or paying out the ass to have it done. I know I make it sound like it took me just a wee-wittle-bit-O-time. The reality of it is that it took me about two weeks to figure it all out and another week to load everything back up (I do keep backups of important stuff like my wife's music, my wife's photos, my wifes document files, etc...).

:lol2:

I have a whole box of them that I have to move to a more modern format.

Anybody got a portable 3.5 drive I can borrow?

Was cleaning my room the other day and found these. :p Took a picture before trashing them.

But they'd go for a fortune on Craig's List. :haha: