Does anyone still use their floppy drive..?

Hey vkprincedark I honestly don't know how they used the the floppy drive back then with only a capacity to hold 1.44mb... i remember i had bought a set of 10 ages ago, i didn't use them much, only for putting some small photos in it, wow that so long ago... anyways now no one uses them i guess

Yes!I am!Even it is out of fashion to use a floppy,I am using the same without any choice.Mine is a second hand computer and it doesn't have a cd writer.So,I use to save or copy something in the floppies as they are there.I have a pen drive too but I don't hesitate to use floppies.Cheers!

lol..they are out now..i guess.. well, its not me..!! never used them till now...

It is funny you asked this because the other day I was going to use a floppy disk then I realised on new computers you don't even get the drives anymore lol! I think I might keep my old floppy disks just to laugh at the past. Like I found this magazine from when I was around 9 years old and it was talking about how great the Dreamcast graphics were... hahaha! I stuck in on my wall in rememberance of the simpler times

I found a floppy the other day that I needed info off of, but I can't get it. New computers you have to pay EXTRA to get a floppy drive. Yeah, don't need one that bad. A good computer is expensive enough as it is.

Negative... Now I use the usb flash drive ;)

I use floppy drive to boot someone's PC which is having corrupted windows 98 or windows 2k/ XP.. otherwise I don't use it for storage device.. it's just for booting purpose..

The last time I used a floppy was some time in 2004 or 2005, unfortunately, the data which was in the floppy was corrupted within a single use, and so I had a lot of problems in retrieving it. My present computer does not have a floppy drive. After 10 years it will be an valuable antique.

You cannot buy anymore those 5 1/4 disk shown in your picture, but the 3 1/2 floppy disks are still used in school by my kids. It's near extinct, low capacity, unreliable and expensive compared to CD/DVD, but they could still get something very important for using it and that is to value their data in storage.

I don't even have a drive on my tower, but at times, I find myself wishing I had one. I have a zip drive that I only connect when I truly need it, but as far as sharing and not wasting a disk, it is not worth it most of the time, as even fewer have a zip drive.

No I do not use a floppy anymore. I have not used a floppy since 2005. I have a older model of desktop computer and it had both floppy and disk drive. the disk drive did not work to well so I used floppys for storage. now I only used my laptop which only has a disk drive.

I still have some floppy disks from back in the 90's, but none of my computers have floppy drives to put them in! I guess they are like my music cassettes! I still have them, but nothing to play them on...lol

Oh man, this is a real blast from the past! I remember those days when we had to ARJ (oldie file compression app which is the predecessor to Winzip) games just to copy them out to floppies, resulting into piles of these disks at my high school dorm. Then it became CD-Rs and now we have USBs - data storage technology had really blazed through since then.

no brother i never use floppies.. this is the age of blue ray disks..

I use them if I want to save a few pictures to take with me or documents. They don't hold much at all so I only use them when I know the document is under 2 mb. I still have the cd writer and now memory sticks as well if I need to use them.

I still use my floppy drive. In the winter when my fingers get cold, the air blowing out when I stick my fingers in, warm them nicely. It's pretty useful for that...lol.

I am not using any floppy drive now my friend. Since there is CDROM, I don't use floppy. Perhaps are people using floppy that is not particularly known on how to save in CD/R or CD/RW...have a great day!

5.25"? Or 3.5"? Ah, either way, I haven't used my floppy since I had to reinstall Windows 98 on my old PC. Who knows how long ago that was. Can't imagine why I'd need a floppy now... not even sure where they are or if I have them.

Floppy disk is something which has gone outdated now. But the students in schools still use it. Once a std.IX boy come to my house asking me to copy something from net and he was carrying a floppy disk. I was amazed seeing that but then I realized that students still use it. I know they don't like to use it but in some schools USBs is not allowed may be..I guess. But I am sure in just 2-3 years no one is going to use floppy disk anymore.

I was using them for a while. They work great for transfering small file from one computer to another Yes the new computer do not have floppy drives Now to tranfere the files I use a router with all my computers connected so is very easy to do the transfere. also there is the flash sticks that work better then the old floppy. so now floppys are out what will be next.