Any One Uses Floppy Drive

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  1. Posts : 404
    Dual Booting Windows 7 64-Bit Ultimate Edition and Fedora 16.
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    Any One Uses Floppy Drive


    Hi,
    Just a thought.

    How many of you use a Floppy drive now?
    If yes, what use it is of?
    I dont have a floppy drive since 2002.
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  2. Posts : 4,466
    Windows 10 Education 64 bit
       #2

    I have a USB floppy drive. Can't say as I use it much. I have a couple of floppies with hard drive diagnostics, memtest, that kind of stuff. I keep everything on USB thumbdrives now.
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  3. Posts : 404
    Dual Booting Windows 7 64-Bit Ultimate Edition and Fedora 16.
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       #3

    I dont even use the Cd-ROM much, just for MoBo and other hardware drivers that they provide.
    [That too for the first time cuz they have been updated]
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  4. Posts : 4,466
    Windows 10 Education 64 bit
       #4

    I have a DVD-Rom drive installed, only ever use it to play games that require the disk be in the drive to play. I install windows 7 from a thumbdrive, all my drivers are on another one, programs on another one etc. I can set my whole system up from a blank hard drive without ever touching optical media. My documents, music, etc is backed up to an external USB hard drive.
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  5. Posts : 404
    Dual Booting Windows 7 64-Bit Ultimate Edition and Fedora 16.
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    alphanumeric said:
    I have a DVD-Rom drive installed, only ever use it to play games that require the disk be in the drive to play. I install windows 7 from a thumbdrive, all my drivers are on another one, programs on another one etc. I can set my whole system up from a blank hard drive without ever touching optical media. My documents, music, etc is backed up to an external USB hard drive.
    Ditto
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  6. Posts : 39
    Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
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    i do still use usb drive... althoug rarely....
    i still have some old drive that comtains some of my favorate dos games like dave and bio menace...

    even though i can virtually max ut any **** game... still love to play the classics..... just for fun..
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  7. Posts : 25
    Windows 7 home 64bit
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    I just got a new pc.. for the first time without a floppy drive. I can sever the ties with a floppy drive now, but I have a stack of floppies I had to transfer photos off of first :)
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  8. Posts : 3,371
    W10 Pro desktop, W11 laptop, W11 Pro tablet (all 64-bit)
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    I still use floppies (5.25 and 3.5) because I have a collection of vintage computers and a few of them are floppy only, no HDD, no CDROM and no USB support. I also have a USB floppy drive that I use on my "modern" machines which allows me to download software from the web and have a way to copy it to my old machines.
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  9. Posts : 404
    Dual Booting Windows 7 64-Bit Ultimate Edition and Fedora 16.
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    strollin said:
    I still use floppies (5.25 and 3.5) because I have a collection of vintage computers and a few of them are floppy only, no HDD, no CDROM and no USB support. I also have a USB floppy drive that I use on my "modern" machines which allows me to download software from the web and have a way to copy it to my old machines.

    This is awesome..
    can you upload some pics of those machines love to see them..
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  10. Posts : 25,847
    Windows 10 Pro. 64/ version 1709 Windows 7 Pro/64
       #10

    I still have a floppy drive hard wired along with cd, dvd, usb. I keep a floppy drive because it has never failed me when needed.
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