Originally posted by SkyDog
Floppies are VERY unreliable for long-term storage. Before CD's became a popular storage medium and all software came on floppy, it was actually fairly common to get some bad ones right out of the box!

If you've got files that are worth saving, put them on something -- anything -- other than a floppy disk.
I agree. I don't use them anymore... but this was information that I kept up to date on this floppy over the course of a few years. I use only CD-R and CD-RW media now.