Yeah quite frankly fuck floppy disks. They were shit when they came out. Corruption, speed problems, reliability problems, tiny storage.
Ever use a Commodore 64 with its datacassette?
Cassette storage put me off computers for more than a decade,---floppys were wonderful in comparison!
Add 30 years to the problem and now you have mechanical and magnetic degradation to contend with.
Note I’m so high tech I had to go round someone’s house the other day and borrow their PC to put a CD-ROM contents on a USB stick. I don’t even have a CD drive now.
That's another thing that gripes me about my new laptop, though in mitigation, they put proper hinges on the thing, & I open it up much more often than I ever need to look at the contents of CD ROM.
I would still have both my previous laptops, if not for the hinges breaking, & my "bodge" repairs not working for long.
OK, I could salvage the CD drive from one of the dead ones, & buy a box for it, complete with all the necessary connectors, or buy a complete USB connected external CD drive, but the last time I needed to download a CD's contents, I just chucked the thing in the old W7 desktop & connected to it by WIFI, to transfer the data to my laptop.
W10 & W7 don't talk together easily (for me), & it wouldn't let me access the CD drive, so I had to download it into a file on the desktop before I could get access to it from the laptop.
Slow, but it got done, without the intermediate thumbdrive stage.
In fact I didn’t even use floppy disks back in the 90s. Had moved to Zip disks and CDRs.
I found a USB connected floppy drive that I had forgotten I had, a few weeks back, & wonder of wonder, even found a floppy the other day.
I must try it, just to see if it freaks the laptop out!