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Lost Floppy Drive.

Wudang said:
What needs a floppy? BIOS updates sometimes require you to boot from a floppy, ditto some tools like partition magic. Recovery floppy, whatever windows calls the damned things?
Plus they cost peanuts anyway
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That is what those USB drives are good for, if your Motherboard supports the USB ports in BIOS (Almost all support 1.1 I know the intel 865-75 chipsets support USB2.0) then you can use them as boot disks, ghost disks whatever.
 
Wudang said:


Um, it was supposed to be a reply to ratcomp1974's question. I built my current PC myself and would have been comprehensively stuffed without a floppy drive.
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I am very sorry, I have become totally unable to identify sarcasm these days.

Apologies.

Must be something to do with talking to Americans all day!
 
Thanks for the suggestions, folks.
I was actually using the floppy to create a network disc. For most file move operations these days I use either a 128MB USB dongle, or the Archos 20Gb USB drive, but this was a response to XP's prompt for a floppy.

As for the cable being twisted- well, this drive has been in the PC since I bought it 2 years ago and it worked fine up till last use about a month ago, so the cable can hardly have developed a flipped connector. However, I did recently pull the EIDE cable to the hard drive, in order to slip in an old drive from a machine with a very dead motherboard, just to salvage the data. That worked fine. I wonder if I might have somehow disconnected the floppy cable in the process? Hard to see how. I will now go offline and check.
:)
 
Well. I live and learn. The cable was indeed swapped and it is now working. Thanks to those who pointed out that fix.

The questions that come to mind are
1)How did I flip it in the first place and
2. Why are these connectors symmetrical? Surely it would have been simple to make them a D- shape?

No matter. Thanks again. Sure is nice to know smart people!:D
 
Soapy Sam said:
Well. I live and learn. The cable was indeed swapped and it is now working. Thanks to those who pointed out that fix.

The questions that come to mind are
1)How did I flip it in the first place and
2. Why are these connectors symmetrical? Surely it would have been simple to make them a D- shape?

No matter. Thanks again. Sure is nice to know smart people!:D
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1. You flipped it when you swapped drives out a month ago.

2. Every one is supposed to know where you put pin 1, why should they design anything for people who don't know about pin 1, I mean how can you go throught life not knowing which side of the cable has pin 1, Jeez (I really don't know why they designed it that way, perhaps there is a reason)
 
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