Alert about usb flash drives

[shankle]

You guys probably already know about this but if it helps 1 person I have done my job.

I have no flash drives. Still using my 200 floppies. They work well for me.
There is a need for storing something small and a need for storing something big.
Floppies fill the bill. However it will soon come to and end because you will not be able
to buy a puter with a floppy drive. I have some 700k floppies that I can't format on any of my puters.
Anyway if you have the time, take a look at the web site about flash drives:
      www.us-cert.gov/cas/tips/st04-020.html
It's from the National Cyber Alert System.
   Cyber Security tip st04-020

[oex]

That page 404s here in th UK :lol

[shankle]

Please try again as I had to URL typed wrong. sorry

[oex]

http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/tips/st04-020.html

still 404s.... Maybe it is a login only feature page badly coded?

[ramguru]

U guys are hopeless  :lol
just googled it http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/tips/ST04-020.html

[oex]

:lol case sensitive

[Magnum]

You guys probably already know about this but if it helps 1 person I have done my job.

I have no flash drives. Still using my 200 floppies. They work well for me.
There is a need for storing something small and a need for storing something big.
Floppies fill the bill. However it will soon come to and end because you will not be able
to buy a puter with a floppy drive. I have some 700k floppies that I can't format on any of my puters.
Anyway if you have the time, take a look at the web site about flash drives:
      www.us-cert.gov/cas/tips/st04-020.html
It's from the National Cyber Alert System.
   Cyber Security tip st04-020

So, is it that you computer can't support USB drives?


Andy

[shankle]

My computers can support usb drives.

[Magnum]

Do you mean that you can't use the floppies any more?

If you want to format them, then you don't want to save what's on them.

Why not build a pencil holder with some of your favorite ones?

[shankle]

I can't use the 700k floppies because windows XP and Vista only format 1.44 to my understanding.
There's nothing on them that I need.
I have tons of 1.44s which I can format.
Probably will have to find a high bridge.

[dedndave]

Jack,
you might be able to boot up with a DOS floppy, then you can format 720K's
although, i have seen troubles with floppies that were formatted in a 1.44M drive that were not readable in a 720K drive
that shouldn't be a problem, though

[Magnum]

I can't use the 700k floppies because windows XP and Vista only format 1.44 to my understanding.
There's nothing on them that I need.
I have tons of 1.44s which I can format.
Probably will have to find a high bridge.

To throw away ALLl your floppies like they're mini frisbees?

[shankle]

Hi Dave,
You got me thinking. (bad move) :bg
In qeditor at the top is a Dos entry.
I went in there and at the A prompt typed in the following:
   format a: /F 720
It works but is a tad slow.