Comments on: New Poll: When was the Last Time you used a Floppy Disk?

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 16:51:15 +0000

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.

By: SLA

SLA — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 07:49:35 +0000

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:
[slackware.org]

BOOT DISK:
In order to install Slackware Linux you must boot a small version of it from diskette. The first diskette holds the Linux kernel and the other diskette holds the root filesystem. Slackware Linux comes with several boot disk images from which you can choose one.
ROOT DISK:
The root disk is the second diskette needed to install Slackware Linux. This disk holds the setup program and all of the necessary utilities to get Slackware up and running on your system. You create the root disk in the same manner as the boot disk. That is, pick an image and dump it to a floppy.

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 !!!

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 20:07:51 +0000

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.

By: OldManDeath

OldManDeath — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 19:18:01 +0000

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.

By: Everton

Everton — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 01:49:48 +0000

I don’t even have a floppy drive on any of my computers………

By: CoryC

CoryC — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 01:20:49 +0000

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.

By: C

Fri, 12 Jan 2007 23:59:15 +0000

we used them in CIS 100 for saving our assignments. i dont know if they still do that.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 21:23:04 +0000

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.