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I wonder what "limited lifetime warranty" means.

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[โ€“] lattrommi@lemmy.ml 9 points 4 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.

[โ€“] Scrollone@feddit.it 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] Malfeasant@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] Ziglin@lemmy.world 2 points 4 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, cโ€ฆ) for SSDs, hd(a, b, cโ€ฆ) for HDDs and nvmen(0,1,2โ€ฆ) 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.

[โ€“] Malfeasant@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

Have I just experienced youngsplaining?