Frederick Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 Time for a sort out ... About 100 floppy's mostly setup for Windows 95 and Lotus Remember that ? .I am not happy about letting them go to the tip as some could have peoples confidential info on them . How did you get rid of yours ? .. I tried cutting them in half ...boy are they tough ! I thought of putting them on the BBQ but they will stink out the neighbours ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert the InfoGipsy Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 An axe. Quick & effective.However, the setup disks shouldn't have anything personal on and it's unlikely anyone would dig floppies out of land-fill anyway.I only recently ditched my DOS.5 and Windows 3.11 installation diskettes. Gave away my Lotus Ami Pro ages ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frederick Posted August 6, 2011 Author Share Posted August 6, 2011 Thanks Albert an Axe it it ... I thought I might end up drilling holes in them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EuroTrash Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 As long as you make several scratches across the playing surface, e.g. with pointed scissors, they won't be playable any more. That's what banks do with floppies that they are sending away for destruction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LAiffricaine Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 [quote user="Frederick"] ... About 100 floppy's mostly setup for Windows 95 and Lotus Remember that ? . .... [/quote]That's going back a bit [;-)] I sat one long winter evening a couple of years back, with all of them floppies I had about the office (after making sure that any info still needed was properly saved elsewhere!) and went on a plastic recycling exercise. Took the sliding bit off at the top, then the little spring falls off, then prized apart the plastic casing containing the 'disk'. Finally with scissors I cut daintly little patterns in the round ever so thin floppy bit. I just let rip with my imagination. Sprayed them with goldy, silvery car paint and lots of glitter bits on them, and strung them up like a chain and hung that about my apple tree in the garden. That was my Xmas outside decorations sorted . And that was the end of my floppies and a good productive evening was had by yours truly [:)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitty Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 I agree that cracking them in half is difficult and positively dangerous to your fingers.I put mine in a very hot wood burning stove, several at a time. They burned like phosperous and there was nothing left of them in the morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnOther Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 I binned most of my floppies before coming to France 4 years ago but kept a few and glad I did because just a few weeks back I used a Windows 95 boot floppy with Norton Disk Doctor on it to recover the partitions on drive where somebody had tried to install Ubuntu alongside XP and made a complete cods of it [;-)]The machine wouldn't recognise my USB boot flash drive but did see my external USB floppy drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert the InfoGipsy Posted August 7, 2011 Share Posted August 7, 2011 This is why I still keep a box of blanks and an external USB floppy drive. I've needed them a couple of times in the last decade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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