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Advantages and disadvantages of single floppy drive and no hard drive?
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In old machines floppy drives were primarily used for booting up the machine. Floppy drive has a very small memory capacity. Almost all of the latest Operating Systems are larger than a Floppy drive capacity of e.g. 1.44MB. Floppy's are not as reliable as other media and can easily get corrupted.
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What are floppy disketters?
Floppy diskette drives read and write information to a single rotating disk that can be removed from the drive.
What are floppy diskette drives?
Floppy diskette drives read and write information to a single rotating disk that can be removed from the drive.
What is the name of the single directory created when a floppy drive or logical drive is first formatted?
root directory
What are the advantages and disadvantages of 3.5'' Floppy disks?
Advantages - NoneDisadvantages - TINY TINY TINY Storage- Rubbish size/storage ratio (size of disc)- they are obsolete surelyI built a new PC and didnt include a disc drive because they are pointlessfor the price of a disc drive you can get a 8 gig USB stick
You dont have a floppy drive how do you add pics from a floppy disk?
By buying a floppy drive. You can buy an external USB floppy drive for under $50.
What allan shugart invented?
THE FLOPPY DRIVE THE FLOPPY DRIVE
Floppy disk disadvantages?
Mainly lack of capacity. A floppy disk is usually 1.44 MB. Modern flash drives, hard drives, etc. are in the gigabytes and terabytes ! You can still use a floppy drive (I have a USB external floppy drive), but it will become more difficult to get new floppy disks as manufacturers abandon a rather antiquated media.
What are the disadvantages of zips?
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Which OS has a floppy drive?
The OS is a program. The computer has the floppy drive.
What are the disadvantages of the floppy disc?
They're large, they only hold so much and aren't rewrite-able (you can't save multiple things on a floppy). A better alternative would be a USB drive.
How do you know which drive is the floppy drive?
Typically, the A drive is the floppy drive; the C drive is the hard drive; and the D drive is the CD drive.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of a zip?
the disks themselves cost alot more than DVD's or CDR's. not many computers madehave Zip Drives especially now.. so you will need a portable type zip drive to use it on many machines and will will have to carry a hard drive sized box with you everywhere you go! they are pretty pointless now with the advent of DVD's!! No advantages lots of disadvantages, a no brainer really...dont bother with one! They are better then a Floppy disk though!
