Do I need a floppy?

[marabob]

Hi, I'm building an athlon system and I wonder do I still need to install a floppy drive?

When it hits the fan, it make a mess.

 

[Ncogneto]

To get things rolling yes ( assuming you need to fdisk and format) but afterwards no.

A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing!

 

[bungee]

It's essential...even if you use it just one time year! Imagine your system crash and your CD-drive don't work and you can't communicate with your hard drives... The only way to boot is with a floppy! It happens sometimes, beleive me! I read an article in the newspaper some time ago which asked the same question as you did and it answered it when its system crashed just as I have answered.

 

[Arrow]

A floppy drive is really cheap anyway, so why not just buy one for the security and keep it in there.

Rob
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[marabob]

I'm ordering the floppy tommorow!
THANKS

When it hits the fan, it make a mess.

 

[Crashman]

Every time I try to eliminate the floppy drive on a new system Windows list one anyway. Go figure.

Cast not thine pearls before the swine

 

[dhlucke]

I'm going to try to build and run my next machine with only the zip drive. So far I don't know anyone who has done this though....

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[Crashman]

I did it. It showed up as both drive A and D.

Cast not thine pearls before the swine

 

[Tom_Smart]

if your bios will support booting from zip i cant see a problem.

Although it has a lot of good ideas, beer doesn't know anything about computers!!!

 

[CALV]

f your bios will support booting from zip i cant see a problem.

But what when your only bootable zip disk dies on you, and all you have is loads of friends who are all too happy to make you a boot disk....
I'd personally put in a floppy, also some (AV recovery/Partition magic rescue disk/Lost and found/ERD) may need to be booted off a floppy.


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[dhlucke]

I've never had a zip disc die on me.

I don't want a floppy drive. I can't fit anything on it, and if we stop buying them they'll stop making them.

I might use my floppy drive 3 times a year nowadays and that's only to move doc files to an old P90 on campus.

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[dhlucke]

Did you just set it up in the bios? Did you need the floppy cable to be plugged in or was it straight forward?

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[Guest]

I have 2 athlon systems running Win2K w/o floppy drives. If you can boot from a CD, you don't need a floppy....... assuming you can create your own boot CD which will load dos or win98 so that you can do a bios flash.

 

[Crashman]

I couldn't set it up in BIOS, it was SCSI. But I did disable the Floppy interface and set the floppies to none. I would suspect that my SCSI card relecated it to A: except that it also showed up as D:, so I suspect Windows.

Cast not thine pearls before the swine

 

[Guest]

yeah, boot cd's are the next evolution, i think. hell, we have to get rid of these floppies sooner or later.

ignore everything i say

 

[Morwing]

It costs next to nothing and it tends to save the day sometimes, so, why not

- Jan

 

[arsend]

Just remember, Windows in safe mode will not work with anything else but a floppy drive and if you have any problems that causes Windows to be unhappy, you will be out of luck.

If it works for you then don't fix it.