Sponsored White Papers, Webcasts, and Downloads
ZDNet Dictionary Definition
- Floppy Disk
- A reusable magnetic storage medium introduced by IBM in 1971. It was called a floppy because the first varieties were housed in bendable jackets. Woefully undersized for today's...
- Full Floppy Disk Definition >>
ZDNet Resources
- ASTRA - Advanced Sysinfo Tool 5.43 (Windows)
- ASTRA - Advanced Sysinfo Tool performs computer configuration analysis and diagnostics. It gives detailed information about your computer hardware and devices operational modes, including undocumented information. A unique quick HDD Health Status checker is included. It provides information on CPU, motherboard, hard disks, S.M.A.R.T., CD/DVD devices, SCSI devices, memory modules,...
- Tags: Floppy Disk, Hard Drive, Device, System Restore, Microsoft Windows, Sysinfo, HDD Health Status Checker, DOS Version, Video Cards, Hardware, Components
- Software downloads 2009-10-16
- Active@ Kill Disk - Hard Drive Eraser 5.1 (Windows)
- Active@ KillDisk - Hard Drive Eraser is powerful and compact software that allows you to destroy all data on hard and floppy drives completely, excluding any possibility of future recovery of deleted files and folders. It's a hard drive and partition eraser utility. Active@ KillDisk conforms to US Department of...
- Tags: Floppy Disk, Hard Drive, Floppy Drive, Disk, Microsoft Windows, U.S. Department Of Defense, LSoft Technologies
- Software downloads 2009-10-07
- Sanmaxi Floppy Disk Data Recovery 5.0.1 (Windows)
- Sanmaxi Floppy Disk Data Recovery recovers deleted files and folders from a floppy disk. It can recover accidentally deleted files and restore corrupted files. The software supports inaccessible floppy disk. It can effectively recover and rescue corrupted or lost data from damaged, unreadable or defective disks.
- Tags: Floppy Disk, Disk, Microsoft Windows, File, Sanmaxi, Sanmaxi Floppy Disk Data Recovery
- Software downloads 2009-10-01
- Floppy Zip Disk Rescue 1.1 (Windows)
- Floppy Zip Disk Rescue is an easy-to-use tool to rescue corrupt file from Floppy disk and ZIP disk or other peripheral devices, It fast scans disk sectors, rescues the damaged files and copies the correct data to hard disk as possible as it can. The program is especially effective for...
- Tags: Floppy Disk, Disk, Microsoft Windows, DigitByte Studio, Floppy Zip Disk Rescue
- Software downloads 2009-09-27
- AnyFound Data Recovery 4.8 (Windows)
- AnyFound Data Recovery Software helps you to search, locate and recover all your inaccessible and lost data due to accidental format, software malfunction, file or directory deletion, virus attack, unexpected system shutdown and sabotage. Its advanced features like advance search, enhanced Music, Video recovery, File preview, Raw Recovery from hard...
- Tags: Floppy Disk, Software, Recovery, Microsoft Windows, Photograph, AnyFound Tech Development, Tools & Techniques, Management
- Software downloads 2009-08-27
- SSDs are getting better, still not there yet
- SSDs are getting better, still not there yetWill never be there!SSD will never replace hard disk. It has the limitation that the number of times you can write to the same memory slots! Just copy 10,000 file directories to flash disks. How many times you can do before you get...
- Tags: SSD
- Discussion threads 2009-07-23
- Darik's Boot and Nuke for floppy disks and USB 1.0.7 (Windows)
- Darik's Boot and Nuke ("DBAN") is a self-contained boot disk that securely wipes the hard disks of most computers. DBAN will automatically and completely delete the contents of any hard disk that it can detect, which makes it an appropriate utility for bulk or emergency data destruction.DBAN is a means...
- Tags: Floppy Disk, Hard Drive, Disk, Microsoft Windows, USB, Computer, Darik Horn, Darik, DBAN, Productivity
- Software downloads 2009-03-26
- Drive Security Manager 1.2 build 1.2.1.3 (Windows)
- Drive Security Manager allows you to apply several security settings to drives including removable devices (USB flash drives, memory sticks, etc.), Floppy and CDDVD-ROMs. You can hide drives content; hide executable files (malware, trojan programs, autorun.inf, etc.); disable ability to write and delete files; show files regarding file masks only....
- Tags: Floppy Disk, Trojan Horse, Microsoft Windows, Security Manager, SSS Lab, Security Setting, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Security, Viruses And Worms
- Software downloads 2009-03-25
- Get with the times; update the icons
- Get with the times; update the iconsWhy are you calling it a floppy disk?[i]why on earth do we still have a floppy disk?[/i]The disk in the icon isn't even floppy, yet [b]another[/b] term that continued to live long after the literal translation ceased to be accurate. :)Well Zack....The point of...
- Tags: floppy disk, disk
- Discussion threads 2009-03-11
- Get with the times; update the icons
- Something I saw after reading my regular stream of blogs, was a post which pointed out the "Save" icon in many of the Office products and Windows editions. The vast majority of us wouldn't notice it as it's an integral part of our user experience, but why on earth do...
- Tags: Floppy Disk, Icon, Blogging, Internet, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2009-03-11
- Zip 'n' Split 1.2 (Windows)
- Compress and split files reliably, quickly, powerfully, and conveniently. With Zip 'n' Split, you can compress a large file using a powerful compression algorithm. Split files based on file size or number of pieces. Verify split files for accuracy. Transfer split files using floppy and other drives, email or FTP....
- Tags: Floppy Disk, Microsoft Windows, FTP, File, Magente, E-mail, Online Communications
- Software downloads 2009-01-24
- News to know: Windows 7; Twitter phishing; Apple; Floppies
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason Perlow: The bell tolls for your magnetic media Robin Harris: Long-term personal data storage Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: First reactions to Windows 7 ...
- Tags: Floppy Disk, Microsoft Windows 7, Apple Inc., Twitter, Microsoft Windows, Phishing, Operating Systems, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Software, Spam And Phishing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-01-05
- The bell tolls for your magnetic media
- Don't wait to try to retrieve the data and content from your magnetic media. Chances are, some of it may already be unrecoverable and highly degraded. Act now. This weekend, I put out a 411 to my circle of Internet colleagues...
- Tags: Floppy Disk, Media, Storage, Chances, Russ, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-01-04
- Ultimate Boot CD 5.0 beta 8 (Windows)
- You need the Ultimate Boot CD if you want to: Run floppy-based diagnostic tools from CDROM drives. More and more PCs are shipped without floppy drives these days, and it is such a royal pain when you need to run diagnostic tools on them. Free yourself from the...
- Tags: Floppy Disk, Floppy Drive, CD, Microsoft Windows, Beta, Tool, Ultimatebootcd.com, Productivity
- Software downloads 2009-01-01
- Don't F: with our networks
- Don't F: with our networksGreat and handy toolsDon't blame the very useful flash drive. If you don't execute stuff on them, they can't do any harm. And after all, just how freaking [b]insane[/b] is it to execute any random crap you find on a removable storage device?Next thing...
- Tags: Consumer electronics, Flash memory, network, disk, CD, floppy disk, cloud computing
- Discussion threads 2008-12-15
- Floppy Image 2.4 (Windows)
- Create image files of floppy disks and back (for backup, shipping or transfer). Save the image file compressed, uncompressed or as a self-extracting exe. Add descriptions to or convert your old image files. Logically recreate bad sectors when writing floppy disks. The self-extracting exe can be fully customized with a...
- Tags: Floppy Disk, License Agreement, Disk, Microsoft Windows, Towodo Software
- Software downloads 2008-12-03
- Is there no end to the AutoRun madness?
- * Ryan Naraine is traveling. Guest editorial by Roel Schouwenberg Let's skip any introduction and get straight to the point: We're currently facing a problem of epidemic proportions in malware that is spreading via removable devices. The U.S. army's recent...
- Tags: Floppy Disk, Malware, Microsoft Corp., USB, Virus, AutoRun, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Microsoft Windows, Viruses And Worms, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- The computer mouse set to die out in the next five years? Don't bet on it!
- The computer mouse set to die out in the next five years? Don't bet on it!I've used perfect Voice Recognition--it still sucksWant to experiment with perfect VR? I did! Here's how:Have a friend (who is willing to be your input device for a full 8 hour day) type for you...
- Tags: Mice, Keyboards, mouse, computer, computer mouse, keyboard
- Discussion threads 2008-07-21
- Whopper floppy packs 32MB
- Whopper floppy packs 32MBAll Ready Been Done ???Iomega has removeable floppy disk that hold 250MB ... now 750MB and more.the floppy unit is a tad bit larger than the 3.5" floppy
- Tags: floppy disk, whopper floppy
- Discussion threads 2008-07-15
- CloneDisk 2.2.5 (Windows)
- Fast clone all operation system. Repair bad hard disk, partition of fixed disk, floppy disk, flash memory, CD or DVD. Backup and restore information. Copy or clone hard disk, partition of fixed disk, floppy disk, flash memory. Version 2.2.5 includes unspecified updates.
- Tags: Floppy Disk, Disk, Microsoft Windows, Flash Memory, CloneDisk
- Software downloads 2008-05-19
White Papers and Webcasts
