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    s96j floppy

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by gjetsg, Jun 4, 2006.

  1. gjetsg

    gjetsg Notebook Enthusiast

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    does anyone know if a floppy drive comes in the s96j? i havent seen anything about it. i plan on ordering from powernotebooks, but i cant find anywhere mentioning if there is a floppy in it or if you could get one put in
     
    gjetsg, Jun 4, 2006
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  2. Geared2play.com

    Geared2play.com Company Representative

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    Asus does not manufacture any laptops in the states with floppies. An extranl self powerd usb floppy is your only alternative
     
    Geared2play.com, Jun 4, 2006
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    mystery Notebook Consultant

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    A floppy drive is such a waste of time, it's only 1.4Mb.. It seems ridiculous especially since those 64,000Mb Flash-Thumb-Drives just came out..Too bad they're 3900$ CAD :(
     
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  4. gjetsg

    gjetsg Notebook Enthusiast

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    so rather then floppy disks i would get the little usb flash drive things correct?
     
    gjetsg, Jun 4, 2006
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    NetBrakr Notebook Deity

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    Geared2play.com Company Representative

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    Flash drives come in 4gb size. Thats about 3 thousand times larger then your floppy. You can also get a 4gb sd card. The notebook has an internal built in sd card reader. You can get a slim external drive enclosure. Its pwered through usb and will take any laptop drive. Its the size of a deck of cards.
     
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  7. gjetsg

    gjetsg Notebook Enthusiast

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    ok, thanks guys
     
    gjetsg, Jun 4, 2006
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  8. winkosmosis

    winkosmosis Notebook Evangelist

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    I can't believe anyone still uses floppies!!
     
    winkosmosis, Jun 4, 2006
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    If you had one of thoe clevo 15lb laptops or a desktop with a raid controller and 2 raided drives you would need one!!. No other way to install raid drivers as far as i know.
     
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  10. winkosmosis

    winkosmosis Notebook Evangelist

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    Only because Microsoft chose to only let you install IDE drivers from a floppy. There is no reason they couldn't have allowed a CD or usb drive.
     
    winkosmosis, Jun 4, 2006
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  11. sangnom

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    You can streamline the RAID drivers onto the install cd.
     
    sangnom, Jun 4, 2006
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  12. winkosmosis

    winkosmosis Notebook Evangelist

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    I forgot about that. Google for nLite.
     
    winkosmosis, Jun 4, 2006
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  13. Geared2play.com

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    heh
    well you learn new things everyday :)
     
    Geared2play.com, Jun 5, 2006
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  14. mattireland

    mattireland It used to be the iLand..

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    Yeh - although I still like them for booting, floppies are going a bit out of date for data transfer. If you still use loads of them your probably best off getting a USB floppy drive which are quite cheap now and can be purchased from any electorinics dealer such as Amazon.com.

    I'm not sure if you can still boot off these though - sorry.
     
    mattireland, Jun 1, 2007
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  15. E.B.E.

    E.B.E. NBR Procrastinator

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    Yep, FDs are pretty much obsolete. Although I suppose there is still much data from a few decades ago that is kept on floppies (and also other, older storage media).

    I would recommend to anyone (especially individual users) backing up data from floppies on more recent storage devices.

    And for regular use, a USB key is much better.
     
    E.B.E., Jun 1, 2007
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