How to hide stuff in a floppy disk

Nobody uses floppy disks anymore so why not turn that unused floppy into a convenient way to hide your things from prying eyes...

So today I present:

Step 1: Dissasemble the floppy

This is relatively easy, just make sure that you don't break the disk. I used a pocket knife and cut the places where the corners are held together. Put your disk aside for now.

Comments

[knex_builder_freak]

I don't know if you were being sarcastic but.... My brother has a 512 MB SD-card.....

[munchman]

I was being sarcastic. You can get 16GB SDHC cards! That's like 2 full DVDs in the size of your thumb.

[Shiftlock]

And now, just a year after this comment, you can get 32GB *Micro* SDHC cards.  That's more than 4 full DVDs in the size of your thumb NAIL!  It's amazing how fast technology is advancing these days!

[ZombiSponge]

And only little more than a year that comment also, you can now get 128 GB SD cards. Is this evolution exponential or what?

[vivamexico]

actaully thats more like 4-10 depending the size of the dvd

[knex_builder_freak]

WoW!

[Madrias357]

I have 2 devices that settle on the lower end. An SD car at 256 MB, and an old 8 MB flash drive.

[sir_puppy]

 I have some lower-end stuff too. A 4 MB memory stick, and a 16 MB SD Card

[knex_builder_freak]

ok cool

[Madrias357]

Just figured I'd throw that out there. Also have a 2 GB flash drive that has 120 MB left of space...

[knex_builder_freak]

awesome

[klingonprins]

you can get 1tb sd cards, and the NSA uses 3pB cards, but that is not for sale, as it would render other storage obsolete with its hugeness. (that is untel the new adobe pdf comes out, cutting the space in half. roflmao)

[knex_builder_freak]

ha

[munchman]

Are you serious?? 3PB in just under 2cm². No way.

[Chromatica]

Big whoop they now have a 128 gb Flash Drive

[munchman]

Um... you do realise what a petabyte is.. right?

[Chromatica]

Im sorry I read it wrong and yes I do 1000bytes to the 8th power

[isniperonmw2]

um actually i think that it is 1024 bytes to the 8th power

[Chromatica]

 Yes it is but most people just simply round down.

[Oi23]

I wish I'd thought of a floppy disk. My instructable about hideing SD cards inside Gameboy games has more misdirection,though.

[WurdBendur]

What happens if somebody puts it in a drive? When the drive tried to spin the disc, the SD card could jam up inside and get the disk stuck. Maybe you should cut around the hub so it can spin independently.

Then again, anyone who uses floppy disks is all too familiar with jammed disks caused by the shutter getting bent.

[Istarian]

Actually, what would be interesting is if you could find a way to squeeze the card ( or it's circuity) in along with the floppy and not damage either. Then store useless data on the floppy to deter suspicion. Or, you could design a mechanism to emulate the magnetic material of the floppy and attach some kind of mechanical mechanism that will trigger it to read from a storage device (sd card, rom, eeprom) or cause it to send garbage and make the computer think the floppy needs to be formatted.

[master key]

I still use Floppy disks.

[Shiftlock]

Who has floppy disks anymore?  Figure out how to do this with a DVD and you'll really have an amazing trick!

[weaponscollector94]

i remember one time my friend hid a small bag of ganja in a CD case, i think it would be the last place his mom would look

[knexsuperbuilderfreak]

now only icould find my cash lol

[erikals]

Is it actually easy to get the cover off the floppy disk and gain your SD card again? Great Instructable.

[munchman]

Yep, just pull off the plastic/metal clip and unfold the two halves of the disk.

[erikals]

thanks munchman
I've published another instructable that should make old WordPerfect 5.1 for Windows users interested:
http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-get-WordPerfect-51-for-Windows-running-on-/
Includes files.
Great Instructable, by the way

[JoeyJaroz]

I saw the corner of your laptop do you have the Compaq Presario c500? i got the same one

[munchman]

Close... the Presario V2000

[dfc849]

Pretty good series of laptops, even better Instructable! +10/10 on this!

[aka_daryl]

how do u know?

[JoeyJaroz]

when the usb reader was in the usb port, i saw the corner of the laptop and it is a very easy laptop to point out

[dfc849]

I'll second that, also one of their more common series of laptops. Easily recognizeable.

[gmjhowe]

i noticed u lost the spring, people mite catch on if the cover aint working having said that, we use to use them without the metal bit on often! all u need now, is something that destroys/wipes the sd card when inserted into a floppy drive!

[munchman]

Yeah! Shame flash drives aren't magnetic. Magnets would be fun! But I suppse you could somehow implement a card reader? Or make the floppy nto a card reader and use a floppy drive to read the SD card!

[Awesomenessguy]

neodymium magnets are cool =]

[gmjhowe]

i was thinking more along the lines of some kind of pcb melting acid stored in a capsule that is triggered when the sleeve is slid back. turning a floppy drive onto an sd card ready sounds like a good idea. get on it!

[jj32x]

i know this isnt what you mean but check this out. its a pretty good site anyway. well worth a look.