Last week we wanted to know how often you reformat the hard drive on your computer. A good chunk, 52% of voters said they don’t ever do it! Not once? I am surprised. In second place was every 12 months with 19%, and in third place was every 6 months with 13% of the votes. Next up, when was the last time you used a floppy disk? It hasn’t been that long, now has it? Or, maybe it has. Let us know! Vote in the sidebar on the left.
How ironic is this? I tried for the first time this afternoon to use one on my old P3. It took me about an hour before I figured out the drive isn’t working anymore. Not sure why but who cares, I got a quick work around and after saying on your last poll that I don’t re-format my hard drives, here I am doing just that. As for the floppy, garbage can by my right knee.
we used them in CIS 100 for saving our assignments. i dont know if they still do that.
I was surprised to hear my supervisor, a software development manager, say just a couple of days ago that he still uses a floppy disk. In fact he has never burned a CD.
I guess even tech geek still find them useful.
I don’t even have a floppy drive on any of my computers………
I have not put a floppy drive in my computer in probably almost 2 years. However, I do have an old MS-DOS Pentuim system, but I have not turned it on in a while.
I do have a USB Floppy drive just in case I ever need one. I also still have a 3.5 floppy drive in my box of computer parts.
I had to go buy a USB floppy drive because none of my PC’s have them and they use SATA drives. Well, SATA drivers aren’t built-into the Windows XP CD that my school lets us use so I had to have a floppy in order for it to recognize that I had hard drives plugged in. I tried slipstreaming them onto the CD but that didn’t exactly work out.
Of course, FDD is almost dead, because there are Flash drives… But some months ago I had to make two bootable floppies to install Slackware Linux. Hey, they still require to have two floppies in order to install their newest Slackware Linux 11:
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BTW, there is 45 years old woman on my job. She is bookkeeper. And she is making back-up copies of main Excel files in a floppies EVERYDAY !!!
I guess it is kinda like security recording tapes to VHS. With the size of hard drives they should just be recording them to the hard drive and backing up some of the older recordings with DVD.