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A floppy disk is a data storage medium that is composed of a disk of thin, flexible ("floppy") magnetic storage medium encased in a square or rectangular plastic shell. Floppy disks are read and written by a floppy disk drive or FDD, the initials of which should not be confused with "fixed disk drive", which is another term for a (nonremovable) type of hard disk drive. Invented by IBM, floppy disks in 8-inch (200 mm), 5¼-inch (133.35 mm), and 3½-inch (90 mm) formats enjoyed many years as a popular and ubiquitous form of data storage and exchange, from the mid-1970s to the late 1990s. While floppy disk drives still have some limited uses, especially with legacy industrial computer equipment, they have now been largely superseded by USB flash drives, external hard disk drives, CDs, DVDs, and memory cards. From Wikipedia under the
GNU Free Documentation License  enjoyfrance.com 200px x 185px | 9.70kB [source page] Back in 1998 the iMac was created without a floppy disk drive and in 2003 Dell stopped including disk drives in higher spec machines Commenting on the floppy disk s demise Bryan Magrath  maxellcanada.com 531px x 1334px | 197.40kB [source page] MF2 hd pc mac formatted 10pk floppy 10pk group jpg SIZE 4 4 x 1 7 From Yahoo Image Search: "Floppy disks"  gamesfar.com admin Sun, 06 Dec 2009 14:25:44 GM A . floppy disk. drive whose . disks. actually were . floppy. ; 5,25 inch black platters that broke almost as soon as you looked at them. And a processor that ran at just under 5MHz. In 1983, you could bolster this with a 20MB hard drive. ...  softlandsl.com admin Sun, 06 Dec 2009 02:47:44 GM Use Recover My Files to perform hard drive data recovery, or if you are trying to unformat and recover data from . floppy disk. , zip drive, smart media, compact flash or other removable media. It is easy . disk. recovery software to undelete ...  diygadgets.blogspot.com Jessy Troy Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:58:00 GM If by any case, after you've make a . floppy disks. notepad, a greeting card and a . floppy disk. pen holder, you still have extra . floppy disks. you need to recycle, here's a nice idea for you: a cool looking . floppy disks. lamp. ... From Google Blog Search: "Floppy disks"  news.google.com Graphic Arts Online (press release) The article described how Zip disks can no longer be read, how floppy disks are unknown to current computer technologies, and how CDs and DVDs may not be ... news.google.com Scoop.co.nz (press release) Before recycling e-waste, people are advised to wipe all data from computer hard drives and remove any removable media such as floppy disks and PC cards. ... and more » news.google.com Examiner.com But, still in order to get Windows to install properly, I needed to find the RAID/SATA driver and load it onto a floppy , do the F6 at the setup screen and ... From Google News Search: "Floppy disks" How to make the floppy disks work? Q. I have a whole pack of floppy disks and I need them so I can format my pc but none of them works, or at least I don't know what I am doing :( I've tried formatting them but no luck either. Basically the computer doesn't recognize them but it won't format them either. Please answer A.S.A.P Asked by Johnny - Fri Jun 19 00:14:53 2009 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments A. Assuming that you have drive connected correctly and your computer has the drivers for it, this is an easy fix. (If you can read data from a floppy disk, your good) Floppy Disks have a small black sliding tab in one corner on the end of the diskette that does not have the metal jacket. Push it one way, your can read and write to the diskette; the other way is read only. If the disk doesn't work, move the tab, and try again Answered by Dragonfire - Fri Jun 19 00:30:28 2009 How can I retrieve files from some old 5 1/4" floppy disks? Q. I've got some files on old 5 1/4" floppy disks. I need to get them transferred to some format I can use -- CD-ROM or even a diskette. I no longer have a drive that will read them, and I don't know anyone who does. Asked by brightonrockgg - Sat May 31 14:32:58 2008 - - 4 Answers - 0 Comments A. Given the likely age of the discs, changes are the data is now unreadable anyway. Try a local PC store / ebay see if you can find a 2nd hand drive, but best of luck. Floppy disc, most unreliable disc around, and the 5 1/4 were worse than 3 1/2 for losing data Answered by stu_the_kilted_scot - Sat May 31 14:44:10 2008 Can any of you think of a creative use for 3.5 floppy disks?
Q. I just can't bear to trash them, even though I no longer have a system to use them, nor the 5.25 disks I still possess. But surely somebody out there can think of a creative project? Asked by Andrea F - Mon Jul 2 21:01:08 2007 - - 14 Answers - 0 Comments A. Make a table top. You could use them as mosaic tiles and top the table with glass, whole or broken to pieces. It would be a cool computer desk. Answered by Maddy Jinx - Mon Jul 2 21:03:43 2007 From Yahoo Answer Search: "Floppy disks" |
