during what situations should one decide to use a floppy disc?

Question

what situations are appropriate for using the floppy disc and why? (ie, limted storage space)

Answer 1

The only moment that you want to use a floppy disk is to install sata drivers or to boot. But you can avoid these by:
1) the first slipstream an xp disk using nlite and asdding the drivers to the install CD
2)using and hp utility to make an small jumdrive into a bootable floopy

Answer 2

You will hardly ever use a floppy. Possibly if you need a boot disk, Ghost Disk. Floppies are useless in new computers that offer USB boot, or network boot options

Answer 3

There is no practical reason to even have a floppy drive for the disk. Use a USB key instead.

Answer 4

storing a small file or program.
emergency start disc
transferring files to an older computer in a format that it can read

SOME new computers don't even have a floppy drive and some MB don't have any way to connect one either.

I still find them useful myself, but then I still use DOS computers for some things.

Answer 5

Some programs let you download an erase disk program onto the flopy that way you put it in the a: drive and restart your computer and the computer erases your drive a lot faster.

Answer 6

initiate menu click RUN and typed CMD to advance a command on the spot. Then typed Chkdsk e: /r The chkdsk command tests a disk for shape corruption. The e: tells it what rigidity letter to apply and the /r tells it to repair the subjects it unearths. what are reasons of corrupted documents? means mess ups, viruses and not doing a thoroughly eliminate rigidity.

Answer 7

fdisking and backwards compatibility with really old computers. floppys really aren't that bad, just small and cheap.