Who still has a Floppy Drive in there system........still???

DragonQ · 17 Nov 2010 at 15:35

I can't believe how many people use floppy disks for BIOS/VBIOS updates. Floppies are so unreliable that I'd never use them for something as "dangerous" as a BIOS/VBIOS flash, especially when modern motherboards can be flashed using a built-in flasing utility that can read from NTFS HDDs, or even from within Windows.

MooMoo444 · 17 Nov 2010 at 15:35

whats a floppy drive ?

Hagar · 17 Nov 2010 at 16:39

DragonQ said:
Floppies are so unreliable.

Proof.

For long term storage yes, but I have floppies with games on since the early nineties which still work. No CD's from that era. I also use a laptop at work which stores data on a floppy, the disks are accessed daily and we do not have failures.

For a simple boot disk, a floppy is quite suitable. You will not fit a modern bios file on one though, you need to clean boot into DOS and locate the file on your disks.

I have never personally known a mobo or card bios flash go wrong using a floppy boot and I have done well over a hundred.

As I stated above a floppy is the ONLY way to recover from a bad flash if the machine wont post or reset.

andy

PermaBanned · 17 Nov 2010 at 17:00

Yes, but it's not plugged in... came with the case

marcus_667 · 17 Nov 2010 at 17:01

MooMoo444 said:
whats a floppy drive ?

agreed forgot what a vhs tape is too lol

theron · 17 Nov 2010 at 20:18

i do, until i switch to win 7 cause i flash the bios using floppy, also raid drivers use floppy.

wonderlust · 17 Nov 2010 at 20:31

I have one PC that still has a floppy drive, but that is about 5 years old.

For all other uses I have an old Integral Memory key that emulates a floppy.

andy_mk3 · 17 Nov 2010 at 21:01

I have an old unused PC with a floppy drive. Runs XP but originally had 98. I don't use them at all any more though. Threw out about 15 drives this year, no need for them!