Re: Planning for Vista

Posted: 10-20-2006, 01:09 PM

Howard Kaikow

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"Lang Murphy" <lang_murphy@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> 5. Might want to get a floppy drive anyway... they're not that expensive

and

> when you need one and don't have it, it's aggravating. Spoken from

personal

> experience.

I would agree.

It's been a long time since I've used a floppy drive for other than booting
to run drive diagnostics, and those are darn important.
And there might be a need to load a driver from a floppy.

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John Barnes

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Re: Planning for Vista

Posted: 10-20-2006, 03:22 PM

Agree, but if your board supports a USB floppy that would be a good
alternative. Plug it in when you need it. All my drives have been NTFS for
years and I run diagnostics from a floppy periodically when problems develop
requiring pre-windows execution.

"Howard Kaikow" <kaikow@standards.com> wrote in message
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> "Lang Murphy" <lang_murphy@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:EE0148BA-DE7E-4306-85CA-D2B38FF0A59C@microsoft.com...
>> 5. Might want to get a floppy drive anyway... they're not that expensive
> and
>> when you need one and don't have it, it's aggravating. Spoken from
> personal
>> experience.
>
> I would agree.
>
> It's been a long time since I've used a floppy drive for other than
> booting
> to run drive diagnostics, and those are darn important.
> And there might be a need to load a driver from a floppy.
>
>

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