They sell 50-packs of recycled 3.5-inch floppy disks for $20 each or 10-packs of brand-new 3.5-inch floppy disks for $13 each. Alternatively, you can get a 10-pack of new disks on Amazon for $19 .

No desktop computer or laptop comes today with a physical Floppy Drive, but several free tools can help you create a virtual floppy disk on Windows 10/8/7. Here are some of them that you can use ...

Gateway does let buyers opt to leave a floppy drive off their computers, but this isn't advertised on the computer maker's Web site. The company decided that since so few users want to forgo the ...

It’s the world’s largest PC hardware orchestra (probably): it’s Floppotron 3.0, built from 512 floppy disk drives, four flatbed scanners, and 16 hard disk drives by Polish engineer Paweł ...

Only a tiny percentage of PCs currently sold still have floppy disk drives. "The floppy disk looks increasingly quaint and simply isn't able to compete," said Bryan Magrath, commercial director of PC ...

Click the Floppy Disk Icon in the Windows Explorer window to open the virtual floppy drive and view the image. Copy or open the files on the virtual driver just as you would with any physical ...

How to use a boot disk. To use the floppy, simply insert the boot disk into your computer's floppy drive and start or reboot your computer.When your computer starts, it will detect the floppy and ...

IBM PC floppy drives didn’t implement any form of notification for a disk eject, so it became quite possible for a disk to be ejected while the operating system still believed cached data from ...

I have a problem with my floppy drive: anytime it tries to access a disk in Windows 2000 the entire system crashes (ie cursor freezes, floppy disk drive light is lit and the drive itself is making ...

The PC was widely fitted with either 5.25″ or 3.5″ disk drives, ... If you have ever loaded Windows from 26 floppy disks then you would probably prefer an Egyptian papyrus scroll. Report comment.

Everyone knows what a floppy disk is, ... Step 1: Insert the floppy you would like to erase into the floppy drive of your computer. Step 2: Click on the Start button, then click on run.

In the early days of Windows computers, permanently installed data carriers, i.e. hard disks or SSDs, were not common. Instead, floppy discs were used as the primary storage medium, in 5.25-inch ...