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03-20-2007, 12:31 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Jacksonville, FL Age: 37 | Your 3.5" Floppy Drive
Do you still have one?
I recently bought another HDD (320GB internal), and want to put it in my main box, but I don't have a spare slot (3.5" or 5 1/4"). I don't really use my 3.5" floppy drive, so I'm wondering if I can get by with removing it.
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03-20-2007, 12:33 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Kirkland, Wa Age: 40 | Well, my thoughts are that CD/DVD media is dirt cheap. I haven't had one for over a couple years... | |
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03-20-2007, 12:46 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Pennsville, NJ Age: 30 PSN ID: woundup78
Wii ID: 6357 9411 6776 3211
| I don't have one installed on my pc. With the low cost of high capacity USB drives the trend is to use that and not even bother with a floppy drive anymore. | |
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03-20-2007, 01:22 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: SoCal Age: 36 PSN ID: Peench
Wii ID: 5757 7273 0641 1996
| Boot the flop. | |
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03-20-2007, 01:37 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Jacksonville, FL Age: 37 | Thanks for the opinions, fellas. Next chance I get, it's gettin' dumped! | |
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03-20-2007, 08:19 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Wheeling, WV Age: 37 | I have an external one just to read old file sthat my wife has on disk (she has some of her old papers and research that she's using to complete her dissertation on floppies). Besides that, we haven't used a floopy drive in a couple of years. | | | |
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03-20-2007, 10:52 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: San Francisco Bay Area Age: 35 PSN ID: botmann
Wii ID: 5287 0294 9240 2773
| I have an external one for $15. It connects via USB. I use it one or twice a year. I use mainly a USB memory card. A lot easier.
If you have a home network, you could just share the floppy on another computer with your network. I use to do that before I got the external.
I don't store anything on floppies any more. I only use it when I'm dealing with older computer systems such as for boot disks. A lot of stuff anymore is just too big to use those floppies.
I would say just ditch the thing. If you do use floppies on occasions, look for a cheap external USB floppy drive. The $15 I spent was money well spent for those few occasions I do use it. | |
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03-21-2007, 06:29 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Jacksonville, FL Age: 37 | Yeah, I guess if I ever "needed" it again for booting, I could just pop it back in the box. No biggie. | |
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04-03-2007, 02:21 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: San Antonio, Tx Age: 39 | I haven't used a floppy for some years now, and the latest pc I built for myself I didn't even include one, I have a multi-card reader in one of the floppy slots and hard drives behind the others........................... | |
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04-06-2007, 12:41 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Woodbridge, VA(Northern VA) Age: 42 PSN ID: WomholeXtreme
Wii ID: 1475 4497 2612 7933
| I haven't built a PC with a floppy drive in it since 2001. | |
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