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Title: Floppy Problems
Post by: Altzan on September 09, 2005, 10:00:42 pm

This has been driving me nuts. First of all, I have a 2 MB floppy with a 1.5 MB file I want to put on it. Yet, It says the floppy can only hold 1.38MB, when it could hold more than that before. Help, anyone? (Also: is there a disk for the A:\ Drive that has more memory than 2 MB?)

Thanks for your hep.

Title: Re: Floppy Problems
Post by: FyberOptic on September 10, 2005, 01:07:22 am

Normal floppy drives can actually only hold about 1.4mb.  I believe Mac floppies can hold more, possibly towards 2mb, but I have no idear really.  There was a time when they sold 2.8mb floppy drives for PCs but they never seemed to catch on.

There's also something called an LS-120 drive which is similar to a floppy except it can hold about 120mb, but I'm betting you don't have one of those.

There's zip-disks too, which I think are still around, and come in various sizes.

If you really need to get this file onto floppies, you can use something like Winzip's span-disk option.  It lets you compress a file and break it up onto multiple disks, then you can combine it back together with Winzip on the other computer.

HOPE THAT HALPS~

Title: Re: Floppy Problems
Post by: Altzan on September 10, 2005, 08:59:14 am

i'LL GIVE IT A TRY. THANKS.

Title: Re: Floppy Problems
Post by: Altzan on September 10, 2005, 09:34:15 am

OK, That was a failure. The other computer couldn't recognize the files OR get them off of the floppy. Says they're corrupted. ??? Any other ideas?

Title: Idea
Post by: Ramesh on October 16, 2005, 08:44:47 pm

1. Get 7-Zip
2. Split the file into floppy sized bits   (yes, you can do this with 7-zip)
3. Copy files to other computer
4. Reconnect files
5. Play with a kitty

Wait... that last one was for me... never you mind it...

Title: Re: Floppy Problems
Post by: Blazeman on October 20, 2005, 03:31:46 pm

Quote from: Altzan on September 09, 2005, 10:00:42 pm

This has been driving me nuts. First of all, I have a 2 MB floppy with a 1.5 MB file I want to put on it. Yet, It says the floppy can only hold 1.38MB, when it could hold more than that before. Help, anyone? (Also: is there a disk for the A:\ Drive that has more memory than 2 MB?)

I think that it's 2 MB when unformatted, but you need to format it in order to use it, and it's only 1.38 MB when formatted...

Title: Re: Floppy Problems
Post by: Buzzard on October 20, 2005, 09:02:13 pm

p-people still use floppies?

Title: Yes we do.
Post by: Ramesh on October 21, 2005, 06:03:31 pm

If you wanted to know what I had to say, you could've checked the post title. Doesn't anyone change these things anymore?

Title: Re: Floppy Problems
Post by: Buzzard on October 21, 2005, 10:49:31 pm

Silly, you should update to laserdiscs or something.

Title: Re: Floppy Problems
Post by: Joefus on October 22, 2005, 08:37:56 pm

Laser Disks are the Bomb.  Other than the fact that they're big enough to play frisbee with easily, all my laserdisks seem to give me a whole lot sharper video and sound than my DVDs.  I thought DVDs were supposed to be the "Ultimate Experience"!!

Title: Re: Floppy Problems
Post by: Vito on October 22, 2005, 08:59:53 pm

Thye're just the smaller and possibly cheaper experiecne.

Title: Re: Floppy Problems
Post by: Buzzard on October 23, 2005, 04:28:05 pm

<3 frisbee disc movies

Title: Re: Floppy Problems
Post by: Altzan on November 07, 2005, 06:05:32 pm

Oh forget this topic. I've done solved the problem.