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Is anyone using an external floppy? The user reviews I've found on the web sound like either it works great or it breaks in a few weeks. Anyone have experience? I'm just thinking it might be cool to have a bootable floppy I can use with both machines without having to open up the boxes.
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I have a cheapo Best Buy Dynex, USB...has worked great the few times I have used it
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Would USB boot floppy work? I put all my boot tools on a CD now & just boot from that; haven't used the floppy in a long time for boot...I have a cheapo Best Buy Dynex, USB...has worked great the few times I have used itComment
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Sorry, I missed the "bootable" part, my bad
I really dont know..
As far as I know you can use bootable flash drives from USB, I suppose 1.44mb floppy
wouldnt give you much of an OS.Last edited by uufta; 7 Sep 2007, 06:48 AM.Comment
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some computers(newer) support booting to usb drives, katz's idea of bootable cd's or even dvd's is much more powerfulComment
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Bootable not that big a deal but..
Mainly I'm looking for something to be the "lasty floppy drive I'll have to buy" kinda' thing. So I figure might as well throw in the part about booting. I'm on my second USB "key" drive or "pen" drive or whatever they call those little sticks. So far from reading reviews and experience with these pen drives it seems like USB = not that sturdy. A lot of the floppy user reviews I read have the phrase about "something making noise" or
"rattling around" etc..
It looks like off the shelf PC isn't gonna' have a floppy anymore and I don't wanna' open up every box I buy to put one in. Just thinking that the time might arrive when some old floppy disk hanging around has something I want. Of course my bootable images I've put on CD or DVD but in a pinch it would be nice if the CD failed then the floppy I made the image from might work etc...
Not a high priority. It just surprises me these drives look flimsier than a pack of cigarettes. You'd think somebody would make one in a sturdy enclosure or something. They sure don't look like they're made to use
every day. What good is it at all if you don't have a clue when it's gonna'
die? I just thought maybe somebody with laptops might have experience and know a good one I haven't found by google.
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out of 3 at newegg, this is the only one with decent ratingsComment
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Hmmmmmmmm of the ones I could find reviews for La Cie seems to have positive reviews by people who have had it longer than 2 weeks. I may get that one. I prolly shoulda' pulled the internal out of the last machine I threw out but I hate to open up boxes of machines that are working perfectly. Plus the HP I would put it in, the side cover is harder to get back on than any hardware you'd change in the thing!! Must be designed to keep the terrorists from getting our computer secrets or something!!!(or maybe just to piss them off they can't get the cover back on after stealing the secrets... a poor man's revenge!!!)
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