Cats_Five:
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Originally Posted by seacue View Post
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I notice that the office worker where I volunteer uses 3.5-inch floppies for some sort of backup.
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Eeeek!!!
If the PC has USB ports and runs XP, Vista or Windows 7 then I's suggest they use a USB stick and SyncToy. But since it has a working floppy disk drive I suspect it's a rather old beast...
I back up as much as I can find on her machine onto a CD [and also a CD-RW]. The floppy is in her
comfort zone, so I don't meddle.
The HP laptop I bought 4+ years ago came without a floppy. Feeling the need, I immediately bought a cheap external USB 3.5-in drive. Weeks later I discovered that one of the sheaf of small papers [printed in gray] which came with the machine was a chit for $50 off on an HP external floppy. TOO LATE.