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Floppy disks- anyone still use them?
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I work between three different computers.
When I need to transfer work from one place to the other I email and save it to a flash stick.
I've learned from bitter experience (2 chapter's worth) that the flash sticks are unreliable.
For confidential data, I use a dedicated laptop as storage.de do-do-do, de dar-dar-dar
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I use them for a couple of things but all back ups are done on a buffalo 300g external drive.
Floppy are great for making boot discs and discs to use for virus reocovery or remove a virus from the PC which can only be accessed at boot up when the PC has become infected and that level. Their may be an easier way to deal with this but at present if works for me.
Other than that no use for them USB flash drives are the dogs."Don't panic just chill out and smile"
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I use floppy disks ocasionally to transfer files from a machine that runs NT. Most USB flash drives won't work on NT. Sometimes I use ftp to transfer data instead0
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Remember that a Hard drive can fail so backup on a CD or DVD0
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Most modern PCs will boot from CD these days and some can boot from USB sticks.snaffler wrote:Floppy are great for making boot discs and discs to use for virus reocovery or remove a virus from the PC which can only be accessed at boot up when the PC has become infected and that level. Their may be an easier way to deal with this but at present if works for me.There's love in this world for everyone. Every rascal and son of a gun.
It's for the many and not the few. Be sure it's out there looking for you.
In every town, in every state. In every house and every gate.
Wth every precious smile you make. And every act of kindness.
Micheal Marra, 1952 - 20120 -
no, AOL CDs are much better for thatinmypocketnottheirs wrote:I use floppy discs as beer mats. Any other uses?0 -
I always email important stuff to myself and then it is stored on the uni server, USB pen, and saved to HDD- so there is almost no way it will get lost.:beer:0
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You can also back up using GMail Drive for GMail/GoogleMail.0
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Only use them at work to transfer data between the mind boggingly large number of different systems I have to use!!
PS - is Boggingly the right word....it sounds right but my brain says no!?!?!FB :heartpuls Wiggly
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Bogglingly? As in 'mind-boggling'.Fat_Boy wrote:PS - is Boggingly the right word....it sounds right but my brain says no!?!?!There's love in this world for everyone. Every rascal and son of a gun.
It's for the many and not the few. Be sure it's out there looking for you.
In every town, in every state. In every house and every gate.
Wth every precious smile you make. And every act of kindness.
Micheal Marra, 1952 - 20120
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