There were several hundred different floppy formats on different machines, different sized floppies, and operating systems, couldn't begin to list them.
However here are a small sample: CP/M, ISIS, UCSD, FAT. mostly a FAT12
Floppy disks use a FAT file system.
I think you can only use a windowsbootable floppy disc for the system in which it was made from.
FAT12
~Erased last answer~ CD (compact disc) drives use the following two file systems: # CDFS (Compact Disc File System). # UDF (Universal Disk Format) file system.
After you make the floppy disc a boot drive (beforehand), you can use it to boot your system when you are unable to boot using your harddrive.
Yes. Most floppy disks all the way from the original IBM PC to the present day use the FAT file system, so a floppy created in Windows 95 (or MS-DOS, for that matter) could still be read on Windows XP or Windows Vista.
Any file system can be used by a floppy disk, as long as the minimum partition size of the file system does not exceed the capacity of the floppy. FAT12 is the most common on Windows / MS-DOS computers. AFS was common on earlier Macs. ext was used among many Linux users. Floppy disks can use a variety of file systems. On MS-DOS and Windows computers, the primary file system for floppies is FAT12. On older Macs, the file system was HFS or MFS. Linux computers sometimes use ext.
That varies with OS, but FAT is currently the most common for floppies.
You must format it. Format a:
In order to use a floppy disc you need to have a floppy disc drive.These days most computers don't have them at all, as they are so old floppy discs are hard to find..and the maximum capacity of a floppy disc is only 1.44Mb. I recently tried to buy some , but I couldn't find any at 15 different computer shops
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
A floppy disc use a magnetic pattern to store data, and loudspeakers are usually based around a (strong) magnet. The magnet can upset the magnetic pattern, making the data unreadable.