Floppy or not to Floppy?
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I haven't had a CD-ROM for years, let alone a floppy drive. On a related note, I've recently moved and found a floppy disk with DBAN written on it buried beneath a bunch of old stuff, the hell was I doing with that in the year 2000...
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If I were building a new PC now I probably wouldn't bother with an Optical drive, let alone a floppy!
Everything is downloadable now. Install Windows in UEFI mode from USB.
I'm not sure my optical drive is connected anymore and can't remember when I last used it.
Everything is downloadable now. Install Windows in UEFI mode from USB.
I'm not sure my optical drive is connected anymore and can't remember when I last used it.
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It depends on what you mean by a floppy drive. I can connect one of my Commodore 1541 disk drives that use the original 5 1/4" floppy disks to my current PC via an XUM1541 or Zoomfloppy adapter and copy files to the disk, so that my Commodore 64s and Plus/4 can use them. I can equally connect a USB 3.5" floppy drive if I have to read PC floppy disks.
To be honest, Commodore 64 users like me use things like the SD2IEC devices these days, to copy files from SD cards to their machines. Solid state still works with 8-bit machines.
To be honest, Commodore 64 users like me use things like the SD2IEC devices these days, to copy files from SD cards to their machines. Solid state still works with 8-bit machines.
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Thanks all for comments, and as my "Word Processor" not "rig"
Don't forget that this old thing has been in my loft for the past 7 years and has only seen the light of day because of my laptop going up in smoke, as I fell-out of gaming hence the laptop.
I know that it is an 2005/2006 spec, but it is serving me well for now until the new "RIG" is built and I have only had to replace the GPU so that it can play some other more newer games. The good thing is that all my old games were still in a box which I am now playing again for old times sake.
Anyway, can someone answer this one then? I get what you all are saying about USB sticks etc, and I will take that onboard in my new build. I also have a multi-card reader which I used to use for reading SD cards etc, but when it comes to micro-SD cards which I place in their SD adaptor my reader wont read it
the only difference I can see on the cards is the micro adaptor has an extra connection pin than a standard SD card, so if anyone can answer that one I would be grateful.
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Floppy? Damn, It's 2014 not 1994 is it not?
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Floppy? Damn, It's 2014 not 1994 is it not?
Yeah but I never throw old tech away, as I have a loft full of old stuff. Walkman's, camera's, mobiles etc. I even found my old nokia 3310 and it still works
as well as old computer parts, cpu's (socket A) ,graphic's cards, sound cards and so-on.Anyway, can someone answer this one then? I get what you all are saying about USB sticks etc, and I will take that onboard in my new build. I also have a multi-card reader which I used to use for reading SD cards etc, but when it comes to micro-SD cards which I place in their SD adaptor my reader wont read it
If it's an older reader then it will probably not read anything over 2GB, possibly 4. Had this issue with a Dell PC I was trying to sort out for someone. Reader has to be SDHC compatible to support bigger capacity cards.
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Cheers fizzy,
You must be right in what you say, as when it tries to read it I get this message. (unable to carryout this task) that would explain it, as the micro sd's are 4gig and above were as the old sd's I use to put in were a max of 64mb.
Damn! I need to get rid of this old tech I have, I think it could be a trip to a car booty or something.
You must be right in what you say, as when it tries to read it I get this message. (unable to carryout this task) that would explain it, as the micro sd's are 4gig and above were as the old sd's I use to put in were a max of 64mb.
Damn! I need to get rid of this old tech I have, I think it could be a trip to a car booty or something.
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I still have floppy drive left in PC case unpowered as my motherboard ASUS P8Z77-V do not have IDE ports so I bought USB floppy drive months ago, worked great to backup all my old disks to DVD.
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Most people have trouble playing one even with an optical drive
.Blu-ray's on PC's are in such a dire state really, it should be as simple as watching an MKV on VLC, but it's not.
That said, I've got an internal Blu-ray Drive and an external one
Indeed - and with a recent usb3.0 drive, and an ssd in the pc, takes around 5 minutes to be at the desktop.
The last time I used one was about a month ago. That was to secure erase and format some old floppy disks I had, before binning them.
Really? Was the data worth that much more than your time, instead of just snapping the disks?
Well strictly speaking, it wasn't a floppy drive I used - it was an LS120 drive. So rather than taking about 10 minutes to fill with random data then zero, it took more like 2 minutes per disk.
But yes, I feel that my security is something worth investing a little of my time into.