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
That page 404s here in th UK :lol
Please try again as I had to URL typed wrong. sorry
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/tips/st04-020.html
still 404s.... Maybe it is a login only feature page badly coded?
U guys are hopeless :lol
just googled it http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/tips/ST04-020.html
:lol case sensitive
Quote from: shankle on October 30, 2010, 12:25:11 PM
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
My computers can support usb drives.
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?
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.
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
Quote from: shankle on October 30, 2010, 05:32:56 PM
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?
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.