Have problem with 2mb disks

Data held on floppy disks is not secure, as you have found out.Floppies can wear out, they can get erased if you put them near a magnet, or a TV set or loudspeaker, or if you leave them in direct sunlight. They are yesterday's technology. Many new PCs nowadays don't even have floppy drives. Their storage capacity is tiny. CD-RW drivescost less than £20 UK and the disks cost around 20p. Get up to date!

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TRANSLATE PLEASE!

TRANSLATION .......yes he speaks the truth you being silly badboy upgrade your technology

They were sh*t in 1985, they are dying now. You have learned a lesson.

Do they still make these "floppy disk" things ?

I believe so.

Wowwwwwww.


Just kidding dude.

Floppies are a pain in the arse.
As you've found out it's pretty easy to trash them wbeyond any possibility of recovering the data.
For roughly what you pay for a couple of boxes of disks you can pick up a 64 or 128 megabyte USB thumb drive
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=46809

They're robust and a lot less grief than floppies.

My present computer which I bought way back in (late) 2004 didn't have a floppy drive, I had to get a thumb drive for emergency boots, DOS, etc. 128 MB for 14 UK pounds. Now I can get a 256 MB for the same price. CD writers are about the same price, and dvd writers are only 30 quid for gods sake.

What is a thumb drive?

Sorry, I think the proper name is "Flash drive". USB flash drives are also known as "pen drives", "chip sticks", "thumb drives", "flash drives", "USB keys", and a wide variety of other names.

They are also sometimes called memory sticks, which is possibly a bad idea leading to confusion, because "memory stick" happens to be a Sony trademark describing their proprietary memory card system.

A USB flash drive is flash memory integrated with a USB 1.1 or 2.0 interface. It is a small, lightweight, removable and rewritable data storage device. The flash drive is a very fast memory device that is more reliable than a floppy drive.



Find out here how to make one bootable

Bootable Flash Drives