Floppy disks

[localzuk]

Just a quick survey about floppy disk usage in schools, as I am about to bin the remaining boxes of old ones that we have here...

 

So, does your school use floppy disks?

[webman]

We use them solely for RM rebuild disks on machines (~60) that don't support USB booting.

[ICT_GUY]

Only to create ghost boot disk images, which then get stored as an image file to be used with the HP usb boot creation utility.

 

Never apart from that. I even look at anyone bringing them is as though they are some insane luddite.

Its quite harsh look btw.

[Geoff]

The only use is for Ghost boot disks. Most machines don't even have floppy drives (or CD Rom drives for that matter).

[Guest]

We use them solely for RM rebuild disks on machines (~60) that don't support USB booting.

 

Same here, although I did have a Sony Pen Drive that they would boot from until it broke Have yet to find another make that will work.

[K.C.Leblanc]

I use them when I'm cooking up ghost boot CDs etc. I think I'm the only person in the school who does.

 

However at my old school loads of people used them.

[maniac]

The only use I have for floppy discs is loading additional SATA drivers into windows XP setup if I'm doing a completely clean build on a machine that needs them. Otherwise never use them at all! Most of our machines don't even have floppy drives on them now.

 

Mike

[timbo343]

We still have a few machines with floppy drives but only about 20 ish, only because the bloody motherboard is out of the stoneage and wont boot from usb pen drives but we have got 2 USB floppy drives too which are used from time to time.

If you dont see the need of keeping them or your not using floppy discs now, file them under B.... bin.

[crc-ict]

I locked our supplies away in a cupboard so that people couldn't use them!

 

The HT had bought memory sticks for everyone so I figured they should be using those, and I was sick of people coming to me to recover data which they had lost from floppies.

[elsiegee40]

We've only got 2 machines with floppy drives... the disks have been binned

 

I did a bulk order of USB Memory Sticks earlier this year for the staff to use so that they can work on planning forms and reports at home.

[Sylv3r]

We haven't issued or used floppy disks for a long time.

[ICT_GUY]

We haven't issued or used floppy disks for a long time.

 

They cost more than USB sticks! Last time I bought some they were around £1 each 8O

[dave.81]

Stopped putting the drives into our machines about 4 years ago so only a handful around the college with them in, though not sure how many actually work.

 

We still once in awhile get someone bringin a disc to us saying they cant get it to work i tell them to go buy a USB stick or use the college email system.

[phreak]

We still have a few of them floppies hanging around for when we need to reconfigure an RM smartcache but otherwise we don't really use them that much.

[phreak]

We still have a few of them floppies hanging around for when we need to reconfigure an RM smartcache but otherwise we don't really use them that much.

[openhgs]

We have some old digital cameras which use floppy. Also, why use a CD for a small file? Just today I sent out a floppy 100K pdf file on it. Last week I installed Windows 3.1 from floppies just for a laugh. Speed on my P4 box is what all M$ o/ses should be. Up and ready to go in 15 seconds.

[Guest Guest]

Only to create ghost boot disk images, which then get stored as an image file to be used with the HP usb boot creation utility.

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Same/similar here but not for ghost. We moved into the 21st century last year

[srochford]

We haven't bought machines with floppy drives for some years but our learning resource centres have USB drives for loan so that students who have old computers at home can still use the discs.

 

I'd love to get rid of them altogether - there are too many people who entrust everything they've got to a floppy and then lose it :-(

[DSapseid]

Ive only got floppy disks to to kick machines into a RIS that cant boot from LAN and have GUID reset floppy disks.

 

I also have one member of staff who still uses floppys even though i have given her a USB pen .

[john]

Floppys get used for RIS boot drivers but thats it really. I have made ghostwalker and ghost boot disks for the very rare occasion i need them into Floppys.

 

Ain't bought machiens with Floppys for 3 years now and were down to the last 2 batches of PCs with them left now so not long to go, but I must admit I will always have one in my PC just for the time when I need one.

[Joedetic]

Coasters...that's all they're good for besides ghosting/RISing.

 

The drives are just somewhere else for some horrid oik to jam a ham sandwich IMO.