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RE: [OT again] Win98 installation issues

• Posted by Brian Broker <bkb at cnw.com> Feb 13, 2003
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Actually, the "shelf-life" of a floppy disk is about 10 years, depending 
on environmental circumstances.  Heat, dust, moisture, magnets, and 
other contaminants can reduce the FDD shelf-life time to zero. 

Shelf life (with a lot of use) is an oxymoron...  

-- Brian

Greg Haberek wrote:
> that the shelf life of a floppy (with a lot of use) is about 3-4 months
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Pete Lomax <petelomax at blueyonder.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [OT again] Win98 installation issues
> 
> 
> On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 17:00:27 +1100, mistertrik at hotmail.com wrote:
> 
> >The boot floppy doesn't detect the cd drive.
> Sounds like a missing cdrom driver. Try the bootdisks from
> http://www.bootdisk.com/ which come with 4 cdrom drivers (see the
> read1st for details).
> Pete
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