Do you still use your floppy drive?

I still use it when I have some small files I want to bring to university like .doc files or sorce code files. But diskettes are so short lasting it fightens me:/ I had ver bad accident with it recently. I was making my Operating Systems project and it required usage of linux. i used version booted from cd because I have Windows XP installed. And the easiest way to save the data was to do use diskette and then just copy source code from it to my hdd in Windows. So i did it this way but after whole night spended on programming (I stopped at 6 a.m.) when I restart computer and wanted to get the data from the diskette I got "file corrupted message" and a question if i want to format floppy drive ;_; My whole work went for nothing because of this junk;_;

There is no more 5 1/4" now. But many people bring to my office 3 1/2" floppies to take out the prints from the laser printer which I have installed. The drive in my machine sometimes does not work, because for months I have not used this drive. Sometimes the floppies would have developed some virus. As it is it cannot hold much matter. Slowly it is getting phased out and even people find it cumbersome to carry the CDs. They have switched over to pen drive.

My PC still has the floppy drive which I rarely use it nowadays. The only time I use it is when I have some photos scanned from another PC and have it saved in the floppy disk and transfer it in my PC. It is worth remembering the good old days when we were using the floppy disks for saving files. Glad the flash drives are available now which could even saved files with larger spaces and bytes.

Hello there. Like you, I quit using floppy drive long time ago. I am now relying on my thumb drive and other removable drives. Floppy drive is no longer relevant as it has very small capacity.

My two laptops don't have floppy drives. My desktop does (I think) but I haven't used a floppy disc in ages. And to think my first computer had no hard drive and I used 5 1/4" literally floppy discs to run it. Now they have been replaced with CDs and DVDs. What next? Will 8 Track tapes be out of style soon? lol.

How old is your computer? LOL I dont think new comuters for a couple years now even come standard with a floppy drive. I have not used a floppy drive in 5-6 years. There are probably some people reading this thinking "What is a floppy drive?"

My fiance computer (the one im on right now) it doesn't have a floppy drive on it. My laptop does have one but i never use it I have a USB drive that i save my items to and carry around just in case i need it :)

My computer does not have a floppy drive. I use Cds and I also put some stuff on online storage. I am thinking of getting a flash drive or memory stick when I can afford to, but other things have greater priority. I do get tired of having to put all My Document stuff on a Cd. I need at least two for everything I have.

I didn't think they made floppy drives or sold them anymore unless your computer is very old. My old computer downstairs is close to 7 years old and I don't hink I ever used the floppy drive on it. My laptop is over 2 years old and does not have a floppy drive...there is not enough capacity on floppy drives.

Yup, i agree. Even me, not anymore. Memory sticks have really taken out Floppy drives

floppy drives are really unrealiable like sometimes they dont work or just deletes stuff on its own usb flash has really tooken over the whole floppy drive

If possible formatted memory sticks do just fine. USB flash drives though really make the floppy a fossil. Of course if you deal with a place that has technology from 1982 then the floppy is still a big deal sometimes. Personally I don't use a floppy and its been like this for years.

My current computer doesn't even have a floppy drive. I've got a CD/DVD RW drive instead so I can just burn stuff to discs instead. Lot more storage space and a lot more reliable in my experience.

Now I have got broken floopy drives! People rarely buy a computer with a floopy drive nowadays.

I have already 3 years not touching this stuff. Very slow and sometimes makes my pc hang for more than an hour. Usually, I have to restart my PC after it can't read.

I used my floppy drive 2 weeks ago when I had to install SATA drivers in order for me to install windows. Thats the only time I used it after many months. I usually use my memory stick / flash drive to save files or burn it to disks using my dvd writer. Well, what can you do with only 1+ MB of space? Hehe :)

the fact that most of the computer products coming out now a days do not come with a floppy drive, you can't use those disks anymore. for me, i don't anymore. memory sticks and usb things were all over the market and they come so handy.

Hi, I used Floppies quite a lot.But no longer. In fact ,my new P.C does not even have a Floppy Drive .

I do have a floppy disk but I think the last time I used it was to install DOS on an empty hard drive. This was like 2 years ago.

NEVER because they have virtually no memory, flash drives are todays newest for of portable memory, they come up to 8gb without costing you a fortune!