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we have to be careful when sharing floppy disks with friends because as you know floppy disks are used for transferring small files between computers it might lead copy of small files and spread of viruses.
Most floppy disks will come pre-formatted. All floppy disks need to be formatted to be usable.
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You would need 729 floppy disks to hold 1GB of data. This is because:1 gigabyte is equal to 1,073,741,824 bytes1 floppy disk can hold 1,474,560 bytesSo floppy disks per gigabyte is equal to 1,073,741,824 divided by 1,474,560, which is 728.18 disks. This means you would need 729 disks to hold the full 1GB.
normally for backup purpouses and boot disks
The cost of floppy disks per gigabyte can vary significantly depending on availability and market demand, as floppy disks are largely outdated technology. Typically, a standard 3.5-inch floppy disk holds about 1.44 MB of data. Considering this capacity, you would need approximately 700 floppy disks to equal 1 GB, which would make the cost per gigabyte quite high, often exceeding several hundred dollars if you factor in the price of individual disks. Overall, it's impractical to use floppy disks for modern data storage needs.
To hold 700 MB of data, you would need approximately 450 floppy disks. This calculation is based on the standard capacity of a 3.5-inch floppy disk, which is 1.44 MB. Therefore, dividing 700 MB by 1.44 MB per disk gives you about 486 disks, but considering practical storage and formatting, around 450 is a more realistic estimate.
The difference is in the thickness and hardness of the disk's magnetic media.Floppy disks (even when encased in plastic housings like in 3.5" diskettes) hold the data on very thin, flexible (thus "floppy") plastic films. Hard disks hold their data on stiff ("hard") platters. Hard disks need to have hard platters because their ability to hold more data means there are fewer mechanical tolerances:. "Floppy" plastic films aren't as reliable.
The difference is in the thickness and hardness of the disk's magnetic media.Floppy disks (even when encased in plastic housings like in 3.5" diskettes) hold the data on very thin, flexible (thus "floppy") plastic films. Hard disks hold their data on stiff ("hard") platters. Hard disks need to have hard platters because their ability to hold more data means there are fewer mechanical tolerances:. "Floppy" plastic films aren't as reliable.
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.
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.
Floppy disks are an old technology and very prone to corruption in a number of circumstances. If the disk is placed near any magnetic interference (speakers, monitor) if a disk gets to hot, or is exposed to light then data on the disk can become unreadable. It is very unlikely that data on a corrupt floppy disk can be recovered. It is generally considered that the use of floppy disks for day to day file storage is a thing of the past. It would be advised you remove any data you have on floppy disc to a new storage format such as flash memory.