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Old 09-13-2003, 08:18 AM   #5 (permalink)
Latch
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I've removed my floppy and have had very very little need for it. The_Dude, I think you're at college.. meaning you're on their network. I've found that if you have that and a CD-Burner (w/ a CD-RW disk) you're fine. Anything I do in the comp labs at uni I just copy to my computer up at res (dorms). Anything I need to take to someone else (i.e. install programs for someone else's computer, files for class, whatever) I just burn to a CD and it's fine. Very easy.

As for the actual reading of the floppy drive: if you have an anti-virus program installed, it may do periodic (or initial if it only reads after a bootup) checks of the floppy to make sure there's no viruses just sitting on it.
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