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Shijaz wrote:
> Check if those floppies are working on other pC's
>
> If they were new floppies (which you say got damaged when you
> inserted into your floppy drive), then your floppy drive might be
> faulty. Otherwise, its your floppies that need to be replaced.
I can forsee a time when floppy drives will be obsolete, replaced by a
single USB2 (or whatever) port for a bootable flash drive. I've just bought
one for my father and he wonders how he ever managed without it! The floppy
drive died on his system (it's an Optiplex GX150) and, because of the shape
of the case, an ordinary drive wouldn't fit (damned Dell!) so I bought him a
256MB flash drive as part of his Christmas present. He thinks it's
fantastic, now I have to buy another one for my mother. They have everything
going for them - bootable (well most are), reliable, almost indestructable
(PC Format here in the UK subjected five drives to five punishments - first
they were driven 450yds with a three wood, then they were fed to pet rats
(don't ask). Those that survived that (and one bowed out at the first
hurdle) were boiled for 10 minutes (one died then). The remaining three were
put in a jeans pocket and then subjected to a 40°C wash, a long spin and
then tumble dried for an hour (they survived that). Finally, they were run
over by the reviewer's car - all three survived that - Crucial, Belkin and
Alkar drives are indestructable - all three were still readable!). Just
don't buy a PlexFlash - it didn't even survive the golf club!)
The main reason is price - I paid £15 for the drive, and it can hold the
equivalent of 180 floppies. Now, a box of floppies costs £4 (average price)
4x18=£72 - or, in other words, you could have 1.28GB of flash storage for
the price of the floppies! The floppy is dead! Long live the flash drive!
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on salads.
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