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

I still have one in my pc. Only because with my previous 939 build i needed it for sata / raid drivers and when i rebuilt my pc, i just left it in there, tho its not connected.
 
I have one, which is used to flash graphics cards. I'll be sad when the header disappears from motherboards. Don't have an optical drive though.
 
i have one installed my an old case i'm reusing for my folding rig but its not connected. was only 3quid brand new i think though.
 
Nope, can't remember when I got rid of mine, probably 3 or 4 years ago. I've still got a box of blank floppy discs though, cant think why I've still got them.... :rolleyes:
 
Ditched mine in 2006 after I built a new system.

Also lol at the 5 inch floppys. I remember loading up Lemmings on a really old pc running dos and thinking it was the most amazing thing ever :p
 
Both primary & secondary machines still have floppy drives but these are floppy and multi-cards reader combo drives. I do still have the old good floppys and use them occasionally for f6 installs on some few XP machines at work
 
I bought one 2 years ago because I thought that was the only way to update BIOS.. then I found out about EZ Flash :rolleyes: Not touched it. I got an LS-120 drive with my first PC in 1998, must have used that all of 2 times, my mate still reminds me what a waste it was that I told him to get one :)
 
If you have totally trashed your bios with a bad flash, it wont reset, you have only a black screen and your machine wont post, you still have a good chance to boot off a floppy disk.
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Modern motherboards have a boot-block BIOS. This is small area of the BIOS that doesn't get overwritten when you flash a BIOS. The boot-block BIOS only has support for the floppy drive. If you have a PCI video card you won't see anything on the screen because the boot-block BIOS only supports an ISA videocard.

Award: The boot-block BIOS will execute an AUTOEXEC.BAT file on a bootable diskette. Copy an Award flasher & the correct BIOS *.bin file on the floppy and execute it automaticly by putting awdflash *.bin in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file.

AMI: The AMI boot-block BIOS will look for a AMIBOOT.ROM file on a diskette. Copy and rename the correct BIOS file on the floppy and power up the PC. The floppy doesn't need to be bootable. You will see the PC read the floppy, after about 4 minutes you will hear 4 beeps, this means the transfer is done. Reboot the PC and modify the CMOS for your configuration.
 
I have 2 floppy drives in the other room, used them less than 6 months ago to cross-dos a bunch of my Amiga discs to the PC, probably never use them again now though :D
 
Used a floppy disk a few months ago :-P
At work, we run these machines which are run on Win 98 on a very old laptop. It didn't have an ethernet connection and therefore we had to move data from the laptop using a floppy lol
 
Still have a USB one (Might have 2-3 of them sitting in a box also) with 10 disks. Never used it for a couple of years now. USB flash usually does the trick! Incidently, I still have a parralel Zip100 drive with 6 disks.
 
haha i was thinknig this the other day,i was looking in the store/stationary cupboard at work the other day and there must be 200+ brand new floppies in there which i dont understand as we all use laptops and not a single one has a floppy drive
 
My friend has an engraving shop, the jig she uses gets its instructions from a Windows 95 machine, some of the patterns/logos are stored on floppy for future reference. It's an absolute nightmare to support!
 
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I still have a floppy drive. I still have hundreds of floppy disks of data that I havent finished transfering over to hard drives. I started the tranfer years ago, but its so boring I usually only get about 50 done a year.

When im done with this I need to install a superdisk drive, anyone used one of them? I have 5 or 6 disks of stuff stored on those too.

Most of my floppys were recorded in the mid 90's but most of them still work even after all this time. :D
 
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