do you Floppy or Not?

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do you guys have floppy drives ...3.5" disk drive or even a 5"

just to see who's where.


to kick it off... i do not have a floppy, and havent for almost 1 year exactly.:D
 
Always have... always will. (3.5) :D

They ARE good for things ya know. :p




dubstar... Maybe should turn this into a poll??? :confused:
 
I'd like a poll! My vote goes against floppies. If I need a file 1.44 MB or less in another location, I'll email it to myself or burn it to a CD that I never close.
 
I got a floppy (3.5) and I suppose I will for a while into the future.
 
Haven't had one since November 2001. Approx one month after XP came out. That's how I remember the date.

Heeter
 
Have the drive, but don't use it. I've got a flash drive and it does all I need.
 
Can't boot off a flash drive though. I have floppies for startup disks for Partition Magic, Norton Ghost, WIndows 9x, Seagate Discwizard, Western Digital Lifeguard tools, Maxtor Maxblast, AVG and Norton Antivirus, Madbootdisk, Memory diagnostics etc...
 
I've read that you can boot from a flash drive under certain circumstances, but that doesn't matter to me anyhow since I always boot to CD.
 
Originally posted by muzikool
I've read that you can boot from a flash drive under certain circumstances, but that doesn't matter to me anyhow since I always boot to CD.

Ditto! 702 MB of shiny goodness...
 
my FDD is in the spares box, comes out for the odd bios flash.
 
I have a floppy and for one purpose only: installing SATA drivers during XP installs. I don't think there's any other way.
 
i still have a floppy drive, but i never use it, i always burn onto cd/email/usb key it :cool:
 
Havent got one, no. But there are 2 working on other computers on my network.
 
My laptop dosent have a floppy but I do have a SD Media reader in it and it can boot off of it plus I can boot off the usb also.
 
Still have mine, havn't used it for ages though, either use CD or flash pen drive (which you can make bootable)
 
I have a 3.5" (still use it sometimes) but my dad has both 3.5" and a 5.25" (which isn't used much ;)).
 
I have one. I use it for dianosis and such, as well as fdisking the drives. As far as they go though you don't really need them anymore. Alot of things are on boot cd's. If you just use it for the small things I guess it would still be good though.

Also does anyone still have a drive B - Tape Drive ?? :)
 

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