Floppy Disk Drives

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The fact that they're bolted together? If you've ever taken a multi-head drive apart, you'd see that all the heads are generally attached to the same moving piece, so they have no choice but to move "in unison."

A blisterlike bulging or protrusion of the contents of the disk out through the fibers that normally hold them in place

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In a Windows operating system, an incorrect drive configuration usually indicates a physical error. The error could be part of the drive itself or in the actual mechanism.

Yes, only if you have the right tools, patience, knowledge and most important of all, the capital to take the risk. Risk is an important factor because a simple mistake would not only ruin both the floppy and the data on it, but it would also damage the floppy drive beyond repair.

I suggest that Floppy Drives are at the end of their technological life. Floppies are a mechanical device, and rely on extremely fine mechanical tolerances, which are unlikely to survive the 'test of time' as far as planarity is concerned.

So failure modes would include warping, chipping or flaking of the surface, and chemical degradation of the compounds. Their speed of data transfer is wanting.

Solid state drives are poised to overtake floppies, and CD's also seem to be a fair method of permanent storage. Compact Disks have a variety of methods for creating the data surface, and some types are likely to fail. But contra, some will have proved superior. Solid state devices may suffer from radiation damage, and in the near future we'll know more about their archival value.

[But they'll have to be as good as the written word and Cuneiform!]

[I have prejudices in this area, as some time ago, we had to consider recovering material from Edison wax cylinders. This was done and transcribed to mag tape. Which due to ageing and print-through, (30 years later) the mag tape will have degraded, and the wax cylinders are still as good as they were 90 years ago!]

BTW, laser readers of vinyl records are about to appear, and for less than $US15 000 you can have one to grace your hifi cabinet.

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USB floppy drives are available from a variety of sources. The best prices can be found on the eBay and Amazon websites, but are also stocked in stores such as Office Depot and Wal Mart.

If you do not have the hard drive in and connected correctly to the mobo, then the problem is the compatibility of the power supply to the mother board. (ie xt mother board vs AMD athelon.)

It changed the world of saving files on your PC, all the way up to now, where you just need a jump drive to save things. So, the world of saving files on your PC has come a LONG way.

Now a days every storage disk drive is portable.. You can have portable hard disk, cd/dvd drives and floppy drives.. All are having a USB interface..

The highest density 8 inch floppy can hold a little over 1.2 MB. The smallest density 8 inch floppy can hold 80 KB.

Floppy disk has tracks and sectors.

Sensors..

If the computer thinks your C: drive is invalid, you need to reload the operating system. In those conditions the disk has become corrupted or the OS has been trashed by a virus. If you have a disk in either the floppy drive or the CD drive and the computer is trying to bootload from there, just remove the disk and it should boot ok.

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Theoretically yes; in fact, some early desktop computers such as Amstrads did just that: the operating system was loaded from a floppy diskette, and data was stored on a seperate diskette. Modern operating systems are just too large for that, and the speed also makes it impractical. You can use a CD or DVD as the boot medium on a modern pc - for example, to test Linux on a Windows machine without actually installing it - but even though this is much faster than a floppy, it is still decidedly sluggish compared to a hard disk, and would be generally unacceptable for day-to-day use.

A removable solid-state medium such as a USB stick or SD card is a more practical solution - indeed, the new Raspberry Pi micro-computer uses an SD card instead of a hard drive.

The short answer is no. They really aren't of any use any more.

Long answer: There are still quite a few old machines that have a slot for the second generation floppies, the 3 1/2 inch disks. You just have to keep asking around for access to an older machine, even, for example, a laptop or desktop computer from 2005 might have such a slot.

These 3 1/2 inch floppies replaced the original floppy disks which were 5 1/4 inch floppy disks. Quite hard to find a machine that has a slot for one of these. But, just as there are people that like to play old 78 RPM records on their old machine, there are a few that still have an ancient - 1980's - computer set up that will run the old floppies. Only the real old timers of the computer age have used them. Back then a hot computer had 640 kbyte of RAM. Hardly anyone had a HD so there were usually two slots for these, the A Drive and the B Drive. To this day most computers call their main drive C Drive and this is the reason.

Good luck finding someone that has a machine that can read your floppy!

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usually can be fixed by connecting your flux capacitor to the ps/2 port instead of the mouse and it will turn back time to the point where your floppy did work... my question is though, why are you still using a floppy and why would you want to fix it?

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When the information is not given on what the problem are there is not a way to know how to handle them. Knowing what the following problems are will allow someone to know how to handle them.

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Magnetic storage has come a long way since 1967 when IBM developed the 8-inch floppy disk. However, I assume you are referring to the 5 1/4 floppy that came out in 1976 and the 3 1/2 high-density disk that came out in 1987. The three major differences between these two disks are the physical size, the storage size, and the speed. The 3 1/2 disks were much quicker, smaller in size, and held more data.