Floppy Drive

[SadExchange]

I'm putting together a new comp and was wondering if it was worth it to put a floppy drive in it at all. I didn't want to at first, but my friend mentioned for drivers, but don't all drivers come on CDs now?

 

[TekieB]

Serial ATA drivers almost always come on floppies. (and so do BIOS updates)

 

[mlbstar10]

AMD has floppy drives now eh?

...or does this have NOTHING to do with "strictly AMD" like i think?

 

[Spiritual Machine]

I haven't had a floppy for over 2 years now. Granted, I don't have a serial ATA drive, but BIOS updates can be done without floppies.

 

[SadExchange]

I'm getting this for my hard drive

Seagate 120GB 7200RPM Serial ATA 150 8MB Cache

Do I need to worry about a floppy drive now

 

[M4d-K10wN]

Yes. You can get a floppy for like ten bucks, what difference does that make? It's cheaper than a fan, lol.

 

[Spiritual Machine]

If you really don't want a floppy drive, you could just put one in for XP install to get the SATA drivers, then take it out after.

 

[tdg]

You need a floppy to install the SATA driver, Windows installation only allows you to add SCSI drivers from A:

 

[SadExchange]

But couldn't I copy any of those installation discs to a CD and then install that way?

 

[specter554]

I installed my SATA drivers right from the Windows XP cd. You don't need a floppy.