I'm thinking of changing my internal floppy drive for a zip 250 drive as i havn't used the floppy drive for years now and i'm fed up with my external one cluttering up the desk. I know the Bios detects the floppy drive on start-up and you can still boot up from a floppy disk so, how will this be effected and will i need to change anything in the Bios before i install the new drive? And will this setup wor with Windows XP?
2007-01-25 07:06:39 · 4 answers · asked by jbenny1 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
I've already got a CD and a DVD burner but you can't just add a few files at a time and amend things on the disc, without leaving it in there and then you've lost the use of that drive. I really need it for updating photos every few days, or backing up documents. I only need a few hundred MB so the 250MB Zip is ideal.
As for USB even the new faster USB devices are just too slow, internal drives conected drictly to the mainboard are just so must faster and don't put as much strain on the PC's resourses. Hence why i'm changing from an external USB to internal ATI.
2007-01-25 08:23:04 · update #1
Gosh, I didn't know anyone used Zip disks anymore. They are expensive and limited. Why don't you go to a CD/DVD drive?
2007-01-25 07:15:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This setup will work all you need to do in the bios is disable the floppy drive seek option. Alot of new pc's come without floppy drives now.
The best thing you can do is get a DVD-RAM drive and a DVD-RAM disc. DVD-RAM allows you to use the disc like you a floppy disk or a harddrive. You can read and write files at the same time and delete files like you would normally without having to format the whole disc.
2007-01-25 19:37:19 · answer #2 · answered by Neil H 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know it's a bit off the subject, but maybe this is a good time to go thumbdrive. All computers have usb ports. They don't all have zip drives. Thumbdrives are also cheaper and use existing drivers found in Windows 2000, ME, XP, Vista, etc. They have no moving parts and don't have anypart that can get contaminated like needing to keep the dust out of a zip drive.
2007-01-25 15:16:44 · answer #3 · answered by Thegustaffa 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
u dont need to change anything. just remove the old external one and put the new one. xp will detect it automatically. but be careful on installing the driver. watch for the certificate management. install with the system defaults. it will work. and u'll see that bios will detect it too before windows starts. good luck
2007-01-25 15:16:03 · answer #4 · answered by Seto!! 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋