Building PC, to floppy or not to floppy?

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I'm considering not putting a floppy drive in my new computer. I have a
LAN and the other computers have floppies. Anyone see a reason why I
should include one? Thanks.
-- Scott

Floppies are dirt cheap and if you don't install it you will need it, sure
as hell.

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On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 01:21:06 GMT, jaeger wrote:

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I'm considering not putting a floppy drive in my new computer. I have a LAN
and the other computers have floppies. Anyone see a reason why I should
include one? Thanks.
-- Scott

I haven't used one in almost 4 years, there is nothing you need it for.

except for installing drivers for my RAID controllers I haven't needed
one. NOw if MS would just let you load them from a CD, during the
install, I could get rid of my floppy but Noooo they insist on a
floppy

On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 07:16:45 GMT, jaeger wrote:

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Adding 3rd party hard disk drivers or raid drivers during setup

You can add the drivers to a custom WinXP CD.

How please?

In fact, this is the
smart way to do it since you can add all your drivers, plus you can set
the switches so that you don't have to babysit the install.

System recovery using partition magic, nortons, others.

Partition Magic will recover from the install CD. Ghost is crap unless
you do enterprise deployment, but the image disc itself is bootable.

On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 07:17:56 GMT, jaeger wrote:

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Copying a paper (five minutes from the deadline) from my laptop to a school
computer, so I can print it out.

Did I miss the part where the original poster was building a laptop?

here try this

Copying a paper (five minutes from the deadline) from my PC to a
school computer, so I can print it out.

On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 01:50:26 GMT, jaeger wrote:

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Get one for sure. Only $10 and you will need it to upgrade your BIOS
and for other purposes.

No, you do not! This is no longer 1994. Any BIOS can be flashed from a
CDROM/RAMDRIVE. Yes, even the new Asus ones that have the .exe file.

DUDE give it up. There are reasons for a floppy.

On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 22:14:24 -0400, Nick
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For less than $10 why not do it up? You never know when you'll need it eg. BIOS flashing, Win98 startup disk etc. and if the time comes and you don't
HeHe did anyone notice that since the start of this thread the price
of a floppy drive as dropped from 20 to less than 10.00?
Can we start a thread on new cars ? I need a good deal.

On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 10:16:55 GMT, jaeger wrote:

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Floppies are dirt cheap and if you don't install it you will need it, sure
as hell.

Why? So far not one person has offered a valid reason.

To who you?

Yes you can work around them but it can be far easier to just have it
from the start.

"Scott" wrote in message
et...
I'm considering not putting a floppy drive in my new computer. I have a
LAN
and the other computers have floppies. Anyone see a reason why I should
include one? Thanks.
-- Scott

At the end of the day, Apple Macs haven't had a floppy drive for years now,
so I'm sure you could work around it somehow..

Dave

On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 04:03:42 GMT, jaeger wrote:

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Wrong. There are situations where you might need it.

Name one.


There are Excel and Word files I work on at home and at my job. The
computers at work have floppy drives and no cd writing capability. I
need to have a floppy disk (and drive) to transfer these files back
and forth.

"jaeger" wrote in message
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DUDE give it up. There are reasons for a floppy.

And yet again, no reason is given.

No you give it up. I just gave a reason for using a floppy drive. (See
thread above)

"What if a friend or client in business hands you a floppy disk with
important files on it?"

What do you do with it?