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Posted: **Thu Nov 21, 2002 1:37 pm**

The Floppy drive has had it's day. I have removed mines making way for more available resources in my P.C. A CDRW is more effective and is better with Rewritable CDs. I have disabled all things in the BIOS that pertain's to FLOPPY DRIVE. LESS PERIPHERALS MORE POWER TO PULSAR. Does the MACCCC has a FLOPPY drive?????.

Posted: **Fri Nov 22, 2002 3:29 am**

I haven't been using a floppy for 3 years (on my Macs) and I noticed there was no need for it in the time (cubase doesn't need floppy keys for 3 years or so)

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Posted: **Fri Nov 22, 2002 4:50 am**

Yes a CDRW Drive is better. Less peripherals + more available resources = MORE POWER to PULSAR. Floppy drives were useful in the earlier windows times when the disk was used to FORMAT HDs. Now Win 2K, XP has the files included on the installation disk for FORMATTING.

Posted: **Fri Nov 22, 2002 6:42 am**

as i have my internet machine separated from
the music one, floppy is very useful to me for transfering modulars and small documents and devices in very practical way.

what resources is taking a floppy?
i don't think anything valuable....

Posted: **Fri Nov 22, 2002 7:12 am**

The controller for starters. An IRQ if more is to be freed up. Use a CDRW for both audio and data.

Posted: **Fri Nov 22, 2002 1:11 pm**

Alfonso,
I too have my internet pc separate from the music one. Why not swap the floppy for, say, a zip drive - it'll give you the ability to move bigger files than a floppy.
They come as 100Mb or 250Mb drives and the disks are cheap too.
Just a thought.

Posted: **Sat Nov 23, 2002 4:45 am**

I bought a PC a couple of months ago that i build myself and did not order a floppy.
I have'nt missed it.
I might need one to upgrade the BIOS but there are workarounds or so i've read.
Apart from that i really don't see the point in having one.

Posted: **Sat Nov 23, 2002 1:40 pm**

Abre,
Perhaps you might want to have a 5.25" floppy?

Or even 8" -> it was so huge I bet you could store masses of... kilibytes there

Oh no, how to put the 8" floppy in your 5 1/4 bay

ROTFL

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Sir SamPlaire

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Posted: **Mon Nov 25, 2002 12:41 pm**

Posted: **Mon Nov 25, 2002 1:42 pm**

I'd need a pc that would allow me to boot & flash bios from another device.

How would I go about creating a bootable cd image?

Posted: **Tue Nov 26, 2002 3:44 am**

Burn those files onto a CDRW or CDR and select boot from CD Rom in Bios.

Posted: **Tue Nov 26, 2002 4:17 am**

On 2002-11-26 03:44, abre wrote:
Burn those files onto a CDRW or CDR and select boot from CD Rom in Bios.

I think that's a little bit too simple explained. You have to make some aditional steps in your burning software. It's been some time that I've done it myself in Nero, but one thing I can remember is that you needed a bootable floppy for the system files. So you'll still need these pesky little floppies!

cheers,
vincent

Posted: **Tue Nov 26, 2002 6:20 am**

OK!!!!!!!!! Continue using YOUR FLOPPY. BYE

Posted: **Tue Nov 26, 2002 12:49 pm**

Well I found the method to create bootable cd's in nero (hint, don't use the wizard) but it doesn't NEED a floppy. It can also use an image file with the proper bits (boot sector & sys files).

Though I might add that the only thing I seem to ever need a floppy for is flashing the system BIOS. I do that so infrequently there's no reason not to just disconnect the power lead & disable the port in teh BIOS---until needed.