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Windows 7 - Any One Uses Floppy Drive |
10-04-2010
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Dual Booting Windows 7 64-Bit Ultimate Edition and Fedora 16. |
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.
| My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number AMD _(Assembled)_
OS Dual Booting Windows 7 64-Bit Ultimate Edition and Fedora 16.
CPU AMD Phenom X4 925
Motherboard MSI 785g-E53
Memory 4gb DDR3 G.skill RipJaws
Graphics Card ATI Radeon HD 6770
Sound Card Realtek
Monitor(s) Displays Dell IN2020M LED
Screen Resolution 1600*900 20"
Keyboard Logitech K100
Mouse Razor Death Adder v2 3500 dPi (Razer Goliathus Pad)
PSU Cooler Master
Case Cooler Master
Cooling Cooler Master
Hard Drives Seagate 500 Gibs
External 320 Gb Western Digital(Got Glitchy)
Internet Speed Back to college Internet with Cyberroam X|
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10-05-2010
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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. | | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Me :) It's a model No. 3.1415926
OS Windows 7 Ultimate AMD64
CPU AMD Phenom II X4 980 Black Edition Deneb 3.7GHz
Motherboard Asus M4N68T-M V2 µATX Motherboard
Memory 8GB 4GBx2 Kingston PC10600 DDR3 1333 Memory
Graphics Card BFG NVIDIA Geforce 220GT 1 Gig DDR2 PCIe
Sound Card VIA VT1708s High Definition Audio 8-channel Onboard
Monitor(s) Displays 2 x 19" I-INC AG191D TFT Flat Panel
Screen Resolution 1280x1024 x 2
Keyboard Logitech Internet 600
Mouse Logitech Wireless Trackman Wheel
PSU Extreme ATX 450 Watt Model No. RSY-645
Case Power Up Black ATX Mid-Tower Case
Cooling Stock heatsink and fan
Hard Drives 500 Gig WesternDigital SATA-300 Drive
Internet Speed 20 Mbps Down 1 Mbps Up
Other Info HP DVD1040e Lightscribe - External USB2
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10-05-2010
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#3 | |
Dual Booting Windows 7 64-Bit Ultimate Edition and Fedora 16. |
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] | | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number AMD _(Assembled)_
OS Dual Booting Windows 7 64-Bit Ultimate Edition and Fedora 16.
CPU AMD Phenom X4 925
Motherboard MSI 785g-E53
Memory 4gb DDR3 G.skill RipJaws
Graphics Card ATI Radeon HD 6770
Sound Card Realtek
Monitor(s) Displays Dell IN2020M LED
Screen Resolution 1600*900 20"
Keyboard Logitech K100
Mouse Razor Death Adder v2 3500 dPi (Razer Goliathus Pad)
PSU Cooler Master
Case Cooler Master
Cooling Cooler Master
Hard Drives Seagate 500 Gibs
External 320 Gb Western Digital(Got Glitchy)
Internet Speed Back to college Internet with Cyberroam X|
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10-05-2010
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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. | | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Me :) It's a model No. 3.1415926
OS Windows 7 Ultimate AMD64
CPU AMD Phenom II X4 980 Black Edition Deneb 3.7GHz
Motherboard Asus M4N68T-M V2 µATX Motherboard
Memory 8GB 4GBx2 Kingston PC10600 DDR3 1333 Memory
Graphics Card BFG NVIDIA Geforce 220GT 1 Gig DDR2 PCIe
Sound Card VIA VT1708s High Definition Audio 8-channel Onboard
Monitor(s) Displays 2 x 19" I-INC AG191D TFT Flat Panel
Screen Resolution 1280x1024 x 2
Keyboard Logitech Internet 600
Mouse Logitech Wireless Trackman Wheel
PSU Extreme ATX 450 Watt Model No. RSY-645
Case Power Up Black ATX Mid-Tower Case
Cooling Stock heatsink and fan
Hard Drives 500 Gig WesternDigital SATA-300 Drive
Internet Speed 20 Mbps Down 1 Mbps Up
Other Info HP DVD1040e Lightscribe - External USB2
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10-05-2010
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#5 | |
Dual Booting Windows 7 64-Bit Ultimate Edition and Fedora 16. |
Quote: Originally Posted by alphanumeric  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  | | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number AMD _(Assembled)_
OS Dual Booting Windows 7 64-Bit Ultimate Edition and Fedora 16.
CPU AMD Phenom X4 925
Motherboard MSI 785g-E53
Memory 4gb DDR3 G.skill RipJaws
Graphics Card ATI Radeon HD 6770
Sound Card Realtek
Monitor(s) Displays Dell IN2020M LED
Screen Resolution 1600*900 20"
Keyboard Logitech K100
Mouse Razor Death Adder v2 3500 dPi (Razer Goliathus Pad)
PSU Cooler Master
Case Cooler Master
Cooling Cooler Master
Hard Drives Seagate 500 Gibs
External 320 Gb Western Digital(Got Glitchy)
Internet Speed Back to college Internet with Cyberroam X|
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10-05-2010
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#6 | |
Windows 7 Professional 64-bit |
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..  | | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number `
OS Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
CPU AMD Phenom II X6 1050T
Motherboard M4A87TD-m EVO\USB3
Memory GSkill Trident 1600 MHz 4 GB Kit
Graphics Card MSi N580GTX Lightning Edition
Sound Card On board
Monitor(s) Displays dell ST2210 22" Full HD
Screen Resolution 1920x1080
Keyboard Logitech Classic Keyboard
Mouse Logitech MX518
PSU Cooler Master GX750
Case CoolerMaster HAF922
Cooling Stock
Hard Drives WD Caviar Green 1TB @ 3 GBps
WD Black Caviar 1TB @ 6 GBps
Internet Speed BSNL unlimited @ 512 kbps
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10-05-2010
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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  | | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number custom
OS Windows 7 home 64bit
CPU Intel Q8400 quadcore
Motherboard Intel DQ45CB
Memory Kingston DDR2-800 8gb
Graphics Card nVidia 9800GT 512mb
Sound Card integrated
Monitor(s) Displays Samsung 2493HM, Samsung 2494
Screen Resolution 1920x1200 primary, 1920x1080 second
Keyboard Microsoft Natural usb
Mouse Microsoft intellimouse explorer 2
PSU Viotek 600w
Case Antec 300 midtower
Cooling 140mm top, dual 120mm exhaust
Hard Drives Seagate 1tb SATA , Seagate 1.5tb SATA (x2)
Internet Speed 7mbps
Other Info APC UPS backup 750ES
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10-05-2010
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#8 | |
Win 7 Home Premium (64-bit), Win 7 Pro (32-bit) |
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. | | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Dell XPS 8100 Desktop, Dell Inspiron 1520 Laptop
OS Win 7 Home Premium (64-bit), Win 7 Pro (32-bit)
CPU 2.8Ghz Core i7 860, 2.4Ghz Core 2 Duo
Motherboard Dell, Dell
Memory 8G, 3G
Graphics Card ATI Radeon HD 5770, Mobile Intel 965
Sound Card ATI High Definition Audio (Built-in to mobo)
Monitor(s) Displays Dell 2409W 24"
Screen Resolution 1920x1080
Keyboard IBM Model M - used continuously since 1986
Mouse Microsoft
Hard Drives 1T OS; 1.5T Data on Desktop, 320G for laptop
Internet Speed 1.5M down 1.2M up :-(
Other Info Also have an Acer Aspire netbook, a home-built AMD Dual core (Minecraft server) and home-built Pent 4 all running Win 7. Also have various machines running XP, Win Server 2K, Win Server 2003, Linux and DOS. I think I have a problem...
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10-05-2010
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#9 | |
Dual Booting Windows 7 64-Bit Ultimate Edition and Fedora 16. |
Quote: Originally Posted by strollin 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.. | | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number AMD _(Assembled)_
OS Dual Booting Windows 7 64-Bit Ultimate Edition and Fedora 16.
CPU AMD Phenom X4 925
Motherboard MSI 785g-E53
Memory 4gb DDR3 G.skill RipJaws
Graphics Card ATI Radeon HD 6770
Sound Card Realtek
Monitor(s) Displays Dell IN2020M LED
Screen Resolution 1600*900 20"
Keyboard Logitech K100
Mouse Razor Death Adder v2 3500 dPi (Razer Goliathus Pad)
PSU Cooler Master
Case Cooler Master
Cooling Cooler Master
Hard Drives Seagate 500 Gibs
External 320 Gb Western Digital(Got Glitchy)
Internet Speed Back to college Internet with Cyberroam X|
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10-05-2010
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#10 | |
windows 7 home premium 64/SP1 |
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. | | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Home made
OS windows 7 home premium 64/SP1
CPU Intel i7-960-3.2 @ 4.25
Motherboard ASUS P6X58D-E
Memory KINGSTON KHX2000C9, Hyper X,12 GIGS with Corsair cooler
Graphics Card MSI/Nvidia/460GTX-Cyclone 1GD5/OC
Monitor(s) Displays DYNEX 40 IN.
Screen Resolution 1920-1080
Keyboard M/S 3000 v 2.0 wireless
Mouse M/S 5000 wireless
PSU Corsair AX-850 Plus Gold
Case Corsair 600T (Black) + side panel with 2 140 mm Noctua fans
Cooling Corsair H50/2 Noctua NF-P12 (120 mm) Push/Pull
Hard Drives INTEL SSD 120GB-SER 510
Seagate 1TB SATA 600 7200 rpm Hard Drive
Internet Speed 3.0 mb
Other Info LG BluRay-Read/Write
Sound system
KLipsch-THX
Asus Router RTN-12
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