What do people have against floppy's?

VidmanII · Post by **VidmanII** » Mon May 24, 2004 8:05 am

I love my floppy drive. I notice there's alot of talk about peeps not using them anymore etc. Couple of my favorite progz are on floppy disks. Norton Ghost and memtest_86. Can't live without them.

ShibasScotch · Post by **ShibasScotch** » Mon May 24, 2004 8:18 am

lets see,
1.38 mb or storage after fat tabels are loaded.
Dies after like MAX 20 uses

vs

703 MB+ storage
Doesnt really die unless you scratch the sh*t out of it, and even then still works sometimes.

Judegs!

Sure I will admit, that I still Have memtest and a 98se boot floppy that i use, but that is all. other than that, my floppy is a good dust collector!

smb · Post by **smb** » Mon May 24, 2004 8:18 am

I think they are too slow, and don't hold as mich info as a cd. I use a 250mb cd for a boot disk. has ghost and a bunch of other utlties on it.

VidmanII · Post by **VidmanII** » Mon May 24, 2004 8:23 am

I'm sure glad I have mine when the XP install asks for SATA drivers !

To each his own I guess. I'll be keeping mine.

dadx2mj · Post by **dadx2mj** » Mon May 24, 2004 8:36 am

I wouldn't say that I love it but I still have and use mine. Works good for like Vid said Ghost, memtest and other small files. Sometimes my kids want to take small files to school like to show other kids pics or whatever. The floppy works great for that.

VidmanII · Post by **VidmanII** » Mon May 24, 2004 9:00 am

:laugh

nexus_7 · Post by **nexus_7** » Mon May 24, 2004 9:55 am

I keep an external usb floppy and thats that.

Greg

rogue · Post by **rogue** » Mon May 24, 2004 5:03 pm

Four words: USB Floppy RAID 0

BillyGoat · Post by **BillyGoat** » Mon May 24, 2004 5:58 pm

memtest is bootable cd as well

nitro237 · Post by **nitro237** » Mon May 24, 2004 7:17 pm

I admit I only use mine sparingly , but I wouldn't have a system without one .

Pugsley · Post by **Pugsley** » Mon May 24, 2004 8:45 pm

I use mine for my camera. way back when i bought my camera USB and mem cards were still flaky as hell so i went with a Mavica cause any computer can use it.

rndmtask · Post by **rndmtask** » Mon May 24, 2004 9:01 pm

CD-RW's are cheap and a whole lot more reliable than floppies. Just ask pugsley when my Linux server got messed up (I hate lilo). I went through a good 20 of my disks each with their own little problem, I also tried all 4 of my floppy drives nothing worked. From now on its bootable cd for me.

xsiled · Post by **xsiled** » Mon May 24, 2004 9:06 pm

i havnt had on in MY system for years, sometimes i use one in another system but that is rare and only for bootdisks.

i hate the disks and the drives, they both die so often its not even worth using them for anything you want the next week.

VidmanII · Post by **VidmanII** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 6:27 pm

Originally posted by xsiled
i havnt had on in MY system for years, sometimes i use one in another system but that is rare and only for bootdisks.

i hate the disks and the drives, they both die so often its not even worth using them for anything you want the next week.

When you guyz can tell me how to run Norton Ghost without a floppy, maybe I'll get rid of it.

For all I know maybe you can !

In the meantime, that prog is a lifesaver for me as a backup tool in that I have 4 HDD's w/ 8 partitions running on 3 different controllers and I don't like to lose ANYTHING !

wvjohn · Post by **wvjohn** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 7:00 pm

gotta have a floppy cause wife transfers stuff between lappy and her computer and I ain't gonna show here how to do network file transfers

i have 1 or 2 floppies in various systems to use with win98/ghost boot disks when things get really flaky..they are semi-installed to i can move them around