Does your computer have a Floppy drive?

[Tayl]

Im actualy quite shocked with poll results.

i didnt think there would be that many people who still have one internaly or external.

My thoughts exactly.

 

[OvenMaster]

I've got one and I used to use it a lot to transfer small files to another PC on an irregular basis. But after it seemed that the floppies I wrote weren't readable anymore on other PCs, and I couldn't read floppies not made on this PC, I switched to a USB flash drive. Also, it appears that as the years pass, the data gets more and more corrupted on my floppies to the point of being useless.

Bottom line: I have one, but no longer use it.

Tom

 

[Saurian]

Say goodbye to airflow

The hottest thing in the computer are the heatsinks on the power modules next to the cpu hsf. Honest, if this board supported overclocking - I think I'd be able to do fine. Even when gaming, my heatsink on the cpu has never gotten the slight bit warm. The northbridge stays fairly cool as well, the ram warms up though.

 

[Mattu]

yeahh, you can really see the difference in the colors..

did you build that?

Yep for under $300. Thats why I have a Celery

 

[rayZa]

I got one. Sometimes its pretty useful.

 

[Camper]

I only say no because it's broke

 

[goosy22]

nope... just a DVD/CD-RW drive... i have 2 other computers that have one each though....

 

[pdc76]

i have one, probably always will until they have dissappeared off the face of the earth.

besides needing one to install my raid drivers, i use mine to make boot disks when needed to help fixing friends pc's.

also, i have a program which boots from a floppy that repairs (or hides) bad sectors on hard drives. i've never tried it on a thumb drive though.........

if i boot from usb device, it might work. i think i'll try it.

 

[BrandonL]

AMD what's a pen drive?

 

[Mattu]

I think it's a USB jump drive he's talking about.

 

[4W4K3]

I haven't needed a floppy in a long time. My laptop deosn't have one. I've got an external drive somewehre but it's not even mine, dunno where it came from.

 

[ultranet]

Emm floppy.... I remember this name ...but from where ummmmmmmm....
I am very sure I knew it.. but ahhh i forgot where!!!!...
say how many legs it has and does it lay eggs?

 

[diduknowthat]

It's handy to have for bios flashing and such.