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I was gifted an unopened pack of 3.5" floppy disks. What should I do with them? (wrong answers only) (feddit.org)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I wonder what "limited lifetime warranty" means.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

just in case someone sticks it in a working drive, add a file to the floppy named

autorun.inf

and add the following to it with a text editor:

[autorun]
open=Microsoft.Media.Player.exe
icon=icon.ico

while i doubt it will actually work, if it does, it would be quite hilarious in my opinion. there's probably, hopefully, safeguards that prevent such a thing from working and i likely have the syntax wrong, i haven't used windows in years.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don't think autorun worked with floppy disks, only with CDs and USB units.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don't think the OS was sophisticated enough to tell the difference... A drive letter is a drive letter...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There are USB headers, PCI(-E) slots, SATA and some older ones. To get storage devices working on each one you will need a different driver.

Windows disabled autorun for USB sticks before win10.

Also if you list the devices on Linux they will show up as sd(a, b, c…) for SSDs, hd(a, b, c…) for HDDs and nvmen(0,1,2…) for NVMe drives. So yes the OS must be able to differentiate.

Windows assigning letters is just weird IMO.

Also to my knowledge the floppy would show up as disk A on Windows.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Have I just experienced youngsplaining?