Anyone have a Windows 7 floppy disk?

  • Posted: March 18, 2010  Topics: Software

I stumbled across something funny today that I just can't resist blogging about.

I was helping a client set up a new user account on her computer. We agreed to password protect the new user account so I clicked the link to create a password for the user.

That's when this sentence on the screen caught my eye:

To avoid losing data in the future, ask [user] to make a password reset floppy disk.

Windows 7 password reset floppy disk

A floppy disk?

This screen appears in Windows 7. I challenge anyone reading this to (honestly) tell me they have a computer running Windows 7 that still has a floppy disk drive. Seriously.

7 comments for this blog post so far...

  • #1
    March 22, 2010 at 9:50 am

    asudduth

    guilty as charged… and I actually needed it last week for a really bizarre/rare issue related to another computer… however typically that drive is just where I keep my dust collection.

  • #2
    March 22, 2010 at 2:54 pm

    asudduth

    I actually have a machine in the office with a floppy and I shared this with a co-worker who said he also has a Win7 machine with a floppy… With that said I know of hundreds (thousands probably) of other Win7 boxes without floppies.  Who knew that I could find 3 Win7 machines with floppies tho :)

  • #3
    March 22, 2010 at 2:58 pm

    Patric Welch

    @asudduth - Leave it to you to bust the curve! :)

  • #4
    March 23, 2010 at 5:35 am

    FrankC

    Another Win 7 with floppy. I’ve upgraded 3 times in the same case, so the floppy just came along. Last time I dusted, there was about !/2 lb of dust in it.

  • #5
    March 23, 2010 at 10:27 pm

    Professor Beej

    I do, actually.  It’s a case that I’ve consistently upgraded over the years, and when I bought the machine, it had a floppy.  And I haven’t needed the space in the case for something else yet, so I have left the 3.5” drive in there for laughs.  I’ve not used it in years, but I recently upgraded to Win7 64-bit while still having a floppy drive.

  • #6
    March 24, 2010 at 11:55 am

    Tony

    I have an external floppy disk I keep in the drawer, as Foghorn Leghorn said about numbering his feathers, “For just such emergencies.” Of course, I’m a Mac user and not a Windows 7 user, but the same sort of viewpoint applies. 

    The main reason I have one is that I had an author (I run a publishing company) who had NO Internet access and NO CD writer, and had to send me all his manuscripts in WordPerfect files on 3.5” floppies.  Short of providing him with Internet access, this was the easiest way for me to do things.

  • #7
    March 30, 2010 at 6:04 am

    Patric Welch

    Alright you guys have all made liars of me! I’m now convinced floppy drives still exist :)

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