Working with Floppy Disks Aside from saving your files onto the hard drive of your computer, you can also save files onto a floppy disk. That way, you can open up and use your files on other computers with the floppy disk that you carry with you. Disk management is extremely important. It involves making sure your floppy disks are in good shape, that data stored on them is safe, and that you have backups of all your important files. The Help Desk gets many calls during the year from people who do not follow these rules for disk management and lose very valuable data and documents.
Floppy disks are fragile.
This means you should always keep your disks in a storage container away from direct heat and light. Do not throw them around your desk or stuff them in a drawer or briefcase. Floppy disks are also cheap. Save important documents or data on a few disks so that if one disk is damaged you still have a backup. Or even if the disk looks fine but has been used for more than a year, transfer the information and throw out the old disk or store it away.