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floppy drives arn't stable enough, they don't hold much data and can be completely ruined if you drop them. whereas harddrives can hold up to 200x data a floppy disk can. although they can break if you drop them,they have a better chance of another useage. buy a portable harddrive. that way, you can take it wherever you go.
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Is hard disk install with floppy cable?
Not in a computer that featured a floppy drive as standard. Computers with floppy drives (4 years old or older) used 34-pin connectors for the floppies and 40-pin (PATA or IDE) cables for the hard drives. Modern computers use Serial ATA, and some SATA floppy drives are available, but they are not common.
What sort of power connector does a floppy disk drive typically use?
The power connectors used by both 5.25-inch and 3.5-inch floppy drives are 4-pin connectors. The larger connector--used by 5.25-inch drives--is called a Molex or peripheral cable. This type of cable is also used by IDE/ATA hard drives and optical drives. The smaller 4-pin cable used by 3.5-inch floppy drives is generally called a floppy power cable.
What is a FDD header in computer terms?
FDD (Floppy Disk Drive) headers are used for floppy disk drives. In all likelyhood, you won't be using them. IDE headers are used for CD/DVD drives and older hard drives, and SATA ports are used for newer hard drives. As far as USB ports *on* the motherboard? You mean the ones on the back? Those are just for peripherals.
What is molex and berg connectors?
Molex is the power plug type used for hard drives and CD drives in older PATA-type PC's. Berg is the same, except used for floppy drives.
Are fdd's still used in computers today?
Floppy disks are rarely used today, mainly due to the fact that they are obsolete. Flash drives, hard disk drives, and memory cards all take the role of floppy disks in a more simple fashion.
Can i use a floppy disk in a zip drive?
No. Zip drives cannot read floppy disks, and cannot be used on a traditional floppy controller.
What 3 disk drives could be used to make a back up copy?
DVD-RW, External Hard-drive, External Floppy-drive
How many drives can you have in Windows 95?
You can have a maximum number of 26 drives / partitions in Windows 95, one for each letter of the alphabet. A: and B: are reserved for floppy drives. The rest (C: through Z:) can be used for hard drives, CD-ROM drives, tape drives, and other storage devices.
What do you use floppy disk drives for?
For putting a floppy disc in. Floppy discs were used a lot in the 1970's as CD's were not invented until the 1980's
What are some domestic uses for ribbon cable?
A ribbon cable is a cable with many wires running parallel to each other and are most commonly used inside computers connecting hard drives, cd drives and floppy drives. Older computers used them as external connections as well.
What are the letters associated with these drives?
In the 'old days', micro-computers didn't have drives. They used tape storage, etc. When 'floppy' drives began to be used (late 70's) they needed to be assigned some value so you could say which one to read from or write to. Someone (I'm not sure who) decided on using the letters 'A' through 'Z' for them. Most computers would only have had one or two floppy drives, so they typically were assigned to 'A' and 'B'. When 'hard' drives began to appear they also needed to be assigned a value, and because 'A' and 'B' were likely to already be used the hard drive was assigned to 'C'. Later additional hard drives may have been installed and they would be assigned 'D', 'E', etc. So you will probably notice that if your computer has a floppy drive it will be designated as 'A', and your hard drive will be designated as 'C'. The usage of letters is Windows way of telling the different drives apart. A:\ is usually designated for a 3.5" floppy disk, B:\ is usually designated for a 5.25" floppy disk, C:\ is generally assigned to the hard drive and is what Windows is installed on. D:\ is generally assigned to a CD-ROM. Depending on your own computer, this may or may not hold true (e.g. if you have 2 hard drives, one may be assigned D:\ and your CD-ROM drive E:\).
What is a floppy header?
A floppy header is the interface used on motherboard to connect floppy disk drives. They are far less common on modern motherboards due to their limited usefulness.
