I formatted a CD-RW disc in the UDF format with InCD to work as a giant floppy so I could backup stuff on it for when I re-formatted. It worked at first, and I got most of my stuff off of it, but now ...

It sounds heavenly. Get a recordable or rewritable compact-disc drive for your PC, and you’ll never have to worry about storage capacity again. Plus you’ll be able to make your own music and data CDs.

Back when blank CDs cost a whopping $5 each and 4X CD-R drives were the top of the line, it was hard to imagine the compact disc ever taking the place of the floppy disc. But now that blank CDs cost ...