I thought floppy drives were extinct untill I built a new system a couple of weeks ago.
Put a brand new SATA HDD in only to find WinXP wont recognise it during install. Need additional drivers but you cant eject the windows cd while installing. OK I've found the floppy in the box. So go to my mate take the drive from his computer and plug it in to my motherboard. Find the provided floppy is corrupted. Tech support website says download these files to a fresh floppy. So download files to my mac - burn to cd- take cd and floppy drive back to my mates house- plug Fd back in and transfer files to floppy.- take drive and floppy back to my house, plug back in to Motherboard and start again.
Success. Then unplug floppy drive and return with case of lager.
All so I can avoid spending £5 on a new floppy drive
