3 1/2 floppy disc.

[Guest]

Where do you put it?

I've tried looking for the drive in general, and the Microsoft Windows XP
Media Center Edition 2005 doesn't have one. All it has is a normal drive for
CD's/DVD's, no floppy.

Help?

 

[John John]

Could you be more cryptic? A lot of computers today are sold without
floppy drives. Use a USB floppy drive or stick an internal floppy in
the computer. Why you have to use a 3-1/2" disk? As for the rest of
your post I have no clue what you are trying to do!

John

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Where do you put it?

I've tried looking for the drive in general, and the Microsoft
Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 doesn't have one. All it has is
a normal drive for CD's/DVD's, no floppy.

No, this has nothing to do with "the Microsoft Windows XP Media Center
Edition 2005." That's the name of your operating system, not the computer.
A floppy drive is a hardware device, and can't be part of an operating
system, which is software.

You chose to buy a particular computer that has XP Media Center Edition
installed, and that particular computer happens to come without a floppy
drive. Many (probably most) computers these days come without floppy drives,
since they are seldom of much use these days.

Personally, I always choose to have floppy drives on all my computers.
Although I use them very seldom, they are occasionally useful or needed, and
since they are so cheap, I just do it.

You didn't say what you wanted to use the floppy drive for, but if you need
or want one, it's supported by your operating system. Just buy one. They are
very inexpensive ($10 or so) and easy to install.

 

[Patrick Keenan]

Where do you put it?

I've tried looking for the drive in general, and the Microsoft Windows XP
Media Center Edition 2005 doesn't have one. All it has is a normal drive
for
CD's/DVD's, no floppy.

Help?

Sounds like your system - the hardware itself, not Windows - doesn't include
a floppy drive. This isn't unusual these days for good reasons, and some
system cases don't really have space for one. In that situation, you
should get an external, USB floppy drive, like these ones:

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2143215&CatId=287
http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=17996&vpn=NG-USBFLOPPY&manufacture=nGear Technologies Inc.

Please note that this is not an endorsement of any company - they are just
the first pictures I could find to illustrate the part I mean and
approximate prices.

Incidentally, floppies are mostly obsolete because they just don't have the
capacity or speed to compare with other media, like USB keys or "thumb
drives", which are easily capable of carrying the contents of hundreds of
floppies. As well, many email systems will handle files bigger than
floppies can support, and that means you can transfer the files by email
rather than floppy.

Finally, floppies used to be necessary to boot up systems with no or a
damaged operating system. But they don't have the space for the files
needed to boot an XP system with an NTFS file system, so you use your
Windows CD to boot if you have to.

HTH
-pk

 

[Conor]

Where do you put it?

I've tried looking for the drive in general, and the Microsoft Windows XP
Media Center Edition 2005 doesn't have one. All it has is a normal drive for
CD's/DVD's, no floppy.

Help?

The people who built your PC did the world a favour and didn't put one
in your computer.