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What is the best external floppy drive to transfer 3.5 floppies to a MacBook Pro laptop CD?
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Where is the 3 and a half Floppy disk drive on an Dell Inspiron 1520?
The Dell Inspiron is not equipped with an internal or external floppy drive. If you want to use floppies with it, you'll have to purchase an external USB floppy drive.
What is the floppy drive of the MacBook Pro?
No Macintosh has included a floppy drive since the release of the iMac G3 in 1998. If you need to use a floppy disk, you will have to purchase an external USB drive.
How do you put pictures from a camera that uses floppy disks onto a computer?
Usually, you will just need to insert the floppies into the floppy disk drive on a computer. If your computer does not have a floppy drive (most made since 2003 don't), you will need to purchase an external floppy drive. These connect to your computer through a USB port. After you plug it in and insert a disk, you should be able to find the drive and view your pictures.
What is another name for floppy?
The other name for a Floppy Disk is "Diskettes or Floppies" answer by Lloyd Gordon 1-876-471-1662
Which file system does a floppy drive use?
That varies with OS, but FAT is currently the most common for floppies.
How much storage does a floppy disk hold?
The capacity of the most ubiquitous floppy is 1.44 MB. Floppies in other capacities have also been made.
How many 3.5 1.44 floppy drives would it take to equal a DVD?
roughly 32638888 3.5 floppies
Is a floppy disk external?
No. An internal floppy drive is connected into the motherboard. It cannot be disconnected from the mother board and function as an external device. However you can buy the external floppy drive and then plug it into a USB port on your computer.If you want to have a floppy drive work externally, you need to buy one that is designed to work with USB connection to your computer.
How can you make 98 SE floppy version?
There is no official method for installing Windows 98 from floppies. For the full equivalent of what was contained on a Windows 98 disk, you would need approximately 460 floppies. You may want to study one of the projects that people have done to reduce the size of Windows 98 down to the minimum necessary files. These files should reasonably fit onto about 10 floppies. You just need to erase your hard drive, boot from a MS-DOS floppy, and runsys C:Then use the copy command to transfer the other files to the hard drive. The system should boot into a usable desktop.
You dont have a floppy drive how do you add pics from a floppy disk?
By buying a floppy drive. You can buy an external USB floppy drive for under $50.
Floppy disk disadvantages?
Mainly lack of capacity. A floppy disk is usually 1.44 MB. Modern flash drives, hard drives, etc. are in the gigabytes and terabytes ! You can still use a floppy drive (I have a USB external floppy drive), but it will become more difficult to get new floppy disks as manufacturers abandon a rather antiquated media.
Why are floppy disks obsolete?
Because..a. floppy drives are no longer installed in computers and.. b. it would take over 500 floppies to equal just one memory stick with 1GB of memory on it. Now you know..
