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2006-08-08 05:01:27 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
I use them all the time for troubleshooting a computer that won't start or if I need to write a script and run it on another computer at boot up. If you are thinking about whether to get a floppy on a new system you are buying, you might not use one, but your tech will thank you if it ever needs to be checked out( cuz we all know computers *never* crash) ;)
2006-08-08 05:09:57 · answer #1 · answered by Rox 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends on need.
Most of my inlaws are still using old equipment.
Floppies reqired there.
Me, I use usb hd off my keyring.
Despite the views expressed, floppies or similar still heavily used.
Fortunately cost of floppies is less than zero.
I havent bought floppies in 18 years... and last time bought was actually paid to buy them..
Bought 100 for $5, and had a $15 rebate to send in.
A friend bought 5000 floppies and had 50*15 in profit.
He is still stuck with a lot of them.
Me I have an old box full of them, but toss out any that fail immedateily or wont format, and will toss out more if I need to put them in a smaller box.
2006-08-08 05:20:28 · answer #2 · answered by pcreamer2000 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As much as I would like to get rid of floppies, I needed my floppy in order to properly install Windows XP. In most cases that wouldn't be necessary, but if you're installing specific hardware such as RAID or SCSI controllers that don't have the drivers already on the CD, it will by default search for a floppy disk for those drivers. I personally didn't expect that and I had to revert to the floppy one last time
2006-08-08 05:43:50 · answer #3 · answered by Elliot K 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I mostly just use a USB drive (flash drive, key, whatever) and it has been so long since I've used a floppy that I don't even remember where I put my little case.
I do have a box with a few hundred floppies with old (backup) data that I will probably destroy some day soon, but I don't use those any more ... the backups now are on CD.
2006-08-08 05:14:46 · answer #4 · answered by felix_doc 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, as some older motherboards don't let you boot to anything else besides the hard drive. And when using classic computers, thats all you have.
But its true that floppy drives are becoming less necessary. I barely use them at all these days. But so long as the cases have a space for the drive's, I'll put my old drive in there.
I have a 6 gig seagate flash drive and it has dos on it. It'd be nice to be able to boot from that.
2006-08-08 06:55:15 · answer #5 · answered by John K 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If a computer won't boot, I'll use the floppy disk that has the boot files for that operating system to boot it back up. Otherwise, I have no other use for them.
2006-08-08 05:47:42 · answer #6 · answered by GJneedsanswers 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i wish i still did my floppy drive died so i haven't bothered putting another one in being i have SD cards, usb, cd burner, dvd burner blue tooth and such and there are times where i would absolutely kill for my floppy to work. upgrading the bios on this motherboard is an absolute pain in the a$$ without a floppy. but i guess it really depends on what you really do with your pc. i do all kinds of things, i can live without it but there are definitely times i wish i still had it.
2006-08-08 07:11:21 · answer #7 · answered by Postman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. I do at work because one of the digital cameras uses them for storing pictures.
When I built my home machine I put in a floppy drive because I had two unused 3.5" bays in the case. Although new I've only used it one time when I checked my assembly.
2006-08-08 05:22:45 · answer #8 · answered by Spark 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah i still do.
to think that im an advanced technician, and i have all kinds of huge storaging device, i still use it!
in what purpose you might say..
im using windows xp..
and i use floppy to flash bios, to install drivers in the command prompt, to run my computer in the command prompt, for searching viruses in the safest way and lots of other stuffs!
i dont use floppy as a storage device, but i use it as a utility device..
so for everybody's information FLOPPY DISK doesnt belong to the STONE AGE, its one of the walls that holds the FUTURE. ;)
2006-08-08 05:15:04 · answer #9 · answered by weirdnelson 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, and laugh all you want! But I use them at school. They are cheap and we have 5 computers in the classroom and sometimes the kids are working on compositions and they can't get to the same computer. So I give them floppies so they can go to any computer at school and work on their composition.
2006-08-08 05:17:38 · answer #10 · answered by makingthisup 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋