How does a floppy disk work?

Question

Like, how do you save stuff on it and then get the info back? This isn't the first time i've used it, but the last time i did, it was in 3rd grade. (i'm going to 6th) thanx and sorry if i placed this in the wrong catergory.

Answer 1

Put in the floppy disk drive (hole in your computer for it)
wait until it clicks
when you want to put a file on it
click save as
scroll down to A drive (floppy disk drive)
Save it to there
When it is down saving
Click the little button next to the floppy disk drive and your disk will come out.
Put the disk in any other computer and boom - you have your saved file anywhere you want.

However, most people now use CDs and USB Drives
But Floppys are still fun

Answer 2

A floppy disk is a data storage device that is composed of a disk of thin, flexible ("floppy") magnetic storage medium encased in a square or rectangular plastic shell. Floppy disks are read and written by a floppy disk drive or FDD, the latter initialism not to be confused with "fixed disk drive", which is an old IBM term for a hard disk drive.

Floppy disks, also known as floppies or diskettes (a name chosen in order to be similar to the word "cassette"), were ubiquitous in the 1980s and 1990s, being used on home and personal computer ("PC") platforms such as the Apple II, Macintosh, Commodore 64, Amiga, and IBM PC to distribute software, transfer data between computers, and create small backups. Before the popularization of the hard drive for PCs, floppy disks were often used to store a computer's operating system (OS), application software, and other data. Many home computers had their primary OS kernels stored permanently in on-board ROM chips, but stored the disk operating system on a floppy, whether it be a proprietary system, CP/M, or, later, DOS.

By the early 1990s, the increasing size of software meant that many programs were distributed on sets of floppies. Toward the end of the 1990s, software distribution gradually switched to CD-ROM, and higher-density backup formats were introduced (e.g., the Iomega Zip disk). With the arrival of mass Internet access, cheap Ethernet and USB keys, the floppy was no longer necessary for data transfer either, and the floppy disk was essentially superseded. Mass backups were now made to high capacity tape drives such as DAT or streamers, or written to CDs or DVDs. One unsuccessful (in the marketplace) attempt in the late 1990s to continue the floppy was the SuperDisk (LS-120), with a capacity of 120 MB (actually 120.375 MiB[1]), while the drive was backward compatible with standard 3½-inch floppies.

Nonetheless, manufacturers were reluctant to remove the floppy drive from their PCs, for backward compatibility, and because many companies' IT departments appreciated a built-in file transfer mechanism that always worked and required no device driver to operate properly. Apple Computer was the first mass-market computer manufacturer to drop the floppy drive from a computer model altogether with the release of their iMac model in 1998, and Dell made the floppy drive optional in some models starting in 2003. To date, however, these moves have still not marked the end of the floppy disk as a mainstream means of data storage and exchange.

External USB-based floppy disk drives are available for computers without floppy drives, and they work on any machine that supports USB.

Floppy disk sizes are almost universally referred to in imperial measurements, even in countries where metric is the standard, and even when the size is in fact defined in metric (for instance the 3½-inch floppy which is actually 9 cm). Formatted capacities are generally set in terms of binary kilobytes (as 1 sector is generally 512 bytes). However, recent sizes of floppy are often referred to in a strange hybrid unit, i.e. a "1.44 megabyte" floppy is 1.44×1000×1024 bytes, not 1.44×1024×1024 bytes nor 1.44×1000×1000.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk

Answer 3

You place the disk into the floppy drive of your computer (Many computers do not use this means of storage anymore)

Go to My Computer and look for your Floppy Drive or A: drive. Double click this... You can drag and drop files here.

To get files off, simply drag them to your desktop or double click on them to open them.

Answer 4

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http://www.howstuffworks.com/floppy-disk-drive.htm

Answer 5

u just put in the floppy disc in the slot ...save...pc will ask u where to save....then choose 3.5 floppy.
to get back info from it...put in the floppy in drive...click my computer...choose 3.5 disc...open whatever u want.

Answer 6

read about it here :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk

It basically stores the data in binary ie 1's and 0's but the above url explains in depth about it

Answer 7

http://westerly.k12.ri.us/whs/tech/Chiaradio/floppy.html