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| Thread ID: 39594 | 2003-11-11 10:07:00 | New Dell PC specs. What..no floppy? | oggy (1250) | Press F1 |
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| 190988 | 2003-11-11 21:23:00 | I forgot to ask this. I havent bought any new floppy drive cables for so long, I have a big box full. Are there still the connectors attached for 5 1/4" floppy drives???? :) :) If so why? | Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 190989 | 2003-11-11 22:09:00 | No, I haven't seen a FDD cable, with a new mobo, with the 5 1/4" connector for a long time. But I do have a drawer full of FDD cables with 5 1/4" connector if anybody needs one :) |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 190990 | 2003-11-11 22:12:00 | What if they are using a stand-alone PC and want to be able to backup NZA or whatever and then restore on PC at home to carry on working? | CYaBro (73) | ||
| 190991 | 2003-11-11 22:33:00 | ive jst bought a dell 8300 and im not missing the floppy drive one bit! | event2 (3921) | ||
| 190992 | 2003-11-11 22:45:00 | For NZAGold I created a batch file for it so that you could backup to CD, Zip or any media you could assign a drive letter too. MYOB has supported backing up to any drive since I can remember so it's of no concern using floppy or any other media. Well lets see, how many floppies does it take to backup NZAGold, last time I used it was about 4 floppies, how many on CD, 1, how long does it take you to complete backing up 4 floppies as well as verifying the data, too long. On CD you would be finished in a matter of Seconds dependant on CD speed, although it's still faster than floppy. CDRW are worth their dollar value when using CDs, Floppies cost more than CDs and are slower. I think floppies are more prone to problems than CDs. Floppy drives are not needed anymore, but I wouldn't get rid of them, as you should know, someone is going to bring you a floppy disk sooner or later so you may as well be prepared huh :P |
Kame (312) | ||
| 190993 | 2003-11-12 00:32:00 | Thanks for the input everyone. If I get this system I will pay the extra $36 and get the FDD (just in case). What can I say? I'm a guy and I can't comprehend life without Mr Floppy.... | oggy (1250) | ||
| 190994 | 2003-11-12 01:52:00 | > If I get this system I will pay the extra $36 and get the FDD (just in case). What can I say? I'm a guy and I can't comprehend life without Mr Floppy.... Yeah, some people rubbished my decision to install a FDD in my new PC last year but I haven't regretted it. It has been very handy at times and I would do it again. I'm a girl and I can't comprehend life without Mr Floppy either...... |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 190995 | 2003-11-12 06:42:00 | How could you do without a floppy? I use them all the time for Drive Image, Partition Magic, boot disks, bios upgrades, loads of stuff! Until such time as something comes along which replaces the floppy completely and has greater capacity, then I'll keep using it. By that I don't mean useless USB which has pretty limited support in the BIOS and programs which are designed to run on floppy like Partition Magic etc, just wouldn't work at this stage. Stuff like USB mice are useless in this area too. The floppy drive replacement would have to act like a normal floppy drive and the programs you needed to run like PM etc would run without knowing the difference, even old dos programs. Also options in the bios to say: Boot from 'certain device'. Cds aren't too useful either because they aren't re-writeable. |
PoWa (203) | ||
| 190996 | 2003-11-12 09:10:00 | as a next step, does anyone know about booting of memory sticks? | Jacob4165 (199) | ||
| 190997 | 2003-11-12 09:18:00 | Hmmm....i have no floppy but use partition magic :D And bootdisks?....meh...they are so 1998 |
metla (154) | ||
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