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Hard Disk Drives

In a personal computer, a hard disk drive controls the positioning, reading, and writing of the hard disk, where data is stored.

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How many different Jeeps did piper drive in charmed?

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Piper Halliwell from "Charmed" drove three different Jeep vehicles throughout the series: a 1999 Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited, a silver 2001 Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo, and a later model 2001 Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo.

Some Winchester Model 94's have a 7 round capacity magazine What can be done to restrict the capacity to 6 rounds to make it legal to hunt whitetails in certain states?

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To restrict the capacity of a Winchester Model 94 to 6 rounds, you can either purchase a replacement magazine tube that holds only 6 rounds or modify the existing magazine tube to limit the capacity. This modification can involve adding a block inside the magazine tube to prevent it from holding more than 6 rounds. Be sure to check your state's specific hunting regulations to ensure compliance.

Why is formatting necessary?

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Formatting prepares something for usage or makes it easier to use. A disk cannot be used before it is formatted. Documents like word processing documents or spreadsheets need to have structure or layout to make them look correct and have some sort of standard setting. So formatting is important for all sorts of things.

What is the different between ATA hard drive and Solid State hard drive?

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ATA and Solid State are two different things. ATA is a connector type with SATA being it's newer form. Solid State is a type of drive medium which the data is stored on. A typical Hard Drive uses spinning platters while a Solid State drive uses flash media with no moving parts.

What is the latest computer disk formatting type?

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exFAT-A newer version of FAT and has an advantage over the previous

NTFS-The now standard with windows 7

What can you use to extract a 4gb rar file in a FAT32 file system?

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You can't. a FAT 32 file system does not support files larger than 4GB in size. You will have to convert the file system to NTFS in order to unarchive it there.

Why is the access time for a moving head disc drive greater than the access time for a fixed head disc drive?

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Why the access time for a moving head disk drive is greater than the access time for a fixed head disk drive

How much space does Microsoft office 2013 use up on a hard drive?

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Interestingly, Microsoft publishes required specifications of the suites as "3GB" required hard drive space for all its versions:

home and student 2013

home and business 2013

office standard 2013

office professional 2013

office professional plus 2013

How do you recover data from RAW hard drive?

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To recover data from a RAW hard drive the hard drive must be intact in some way. Connect the damaged hard drive as the slave drive and another hard drive that is in working order as the master drive. This should allow for file transfer as long as the RAW drive is not too far damaged.

What removes data from a file or disk?

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Editing the file.

ReWriteing the file.

Modding the file.

Many names can be used. But if you are talking about editing the file in a way to make it do things it shouldn't this would be called:

Cracking the file.

Hacking the file.

Exploiting the file.

What can one do if the hard drive is clicking?

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If a hard drive is clicking then a person should make a decision to try and back up or recover any files on the hard drive. Files on the hard drive can be recovered by using professional hard drive recovery systems.

What file system must be used in order to encrypt an entire hard drive?

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NTFS (New Technology File System) file system is the only file system that is able to be encrypted fully

What does NTFS stand for?

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new technology file system

it is a new file system of microsoft to replace fat file system

When two drives connect to the same data cable how does bios know which is the master and slave?

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depends on the BIOS and the Hardirves. Some older IDE drives have a switch or a jumper on them that u can select Master or Slave. Some computer you can change this in the BIOS. Master being the controller and slave being the controlled

How do you install Windows 98 start up disk to upgrade from Windows 95?

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To install Windows 95 from MS-DOS, run an F disk before formatting the hard disk. Then add a switch /S so that the partition will be bootable.

Does Fallout 3 GOTY need a hard drive to play on the 360?

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I find this question quite odd as I find it difficult to understand how you can even have the option to download, to say nothing about have an operating system without a hard drive. If you mean with no hard drive space, then I guess you have nowhere to put it.

How many gigs is battlefield 3 premium?

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Here are all the expansions for Battlefield 3 Premium: Back to Karkand, Close Quarters, Armored Kill, Aftermath, and End Game. So there are five expansions that come with Battlefield 3 Premium.

Can you play Minecraft on an external hard drive?

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Yes, World of Warcarft will play from an external hard drive. That being said, it probably is not the best idea to actually do it because there will be a lot of long load times starting it, and while playing.

How many movies can a 500 gb external hard drive hold?

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This question is far too general to be answered specifically, but I'll give it a shot! The short answer is... "It depends." The verbose answer is...

It depends primarily on the length and general quality, which directly affects the size, of each movie file you intend to store. For example if you have a 105 minute movie file that is the same resolution and encoded/compressed in the same manner and quality as a DVD movie (MPEG2) then you can count on each file being approximately 2.8GB in size. Using this as a baseline you should be able to store approximately 357 DVD quality movie files on 1TB of storage. However if you have files with a lower resolution (as is often the case in digital cameras and internet videos) or a higher compression ratio (as there is in MPEG4 files) than a standard DVD then you'll be able to fit more files onto the drive, quite possibly many, MANY more. Of course this means that if you have higher quality files, like HD movies, then you won't be able to fit nearly as many on to 1TB of storage.

In summary, the question you should be asking yourself is "What number, type and quality of files to I want to store?" Answering this will tell you whether you need a 16GB thumb-drive, a RAID-0 array of eight 2TB drives (16TB total storage) or, most likely, something inbetween.

I hope this helps, good luck and take care!

How do you format a blank hard drive?

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If you mean "completely erase" it, the term is "Format" and you can perform it from DOS using the command "Format c:".

I think it is beyond formatting. I read today in the New York Times that John Jay College in NYC has adopted a program that covers the free space with zeroes.

The program your probably talking about is evidence-eliminator.com. This program erases all forensic evidence that remains on your hard drive after you format it, and believe you me it's alot. You can recover the entire contents of a formatted hard drive with the right tools. But EE prvents this and effectively "Zero's Out" you hard drive.

Formating a hard drive prepares it for use and deletes previous file names so Windows can't see them. They still exist and can be recovered with several Undelete programs. However, if you wish to remove all data from the drive, just formatting is not enough. "Zeroing" a drive rewrites over the entire drive, replacing previous data with simple 0's. There are several 'Zero' filling programs available on the web and some drive manufacturers include a zero utility on their support sites.The previous answer is pretty good, however it is argued that you can recover a zeroed hard drive. It is possible to retrieve "some" data however "fully recovering" a zeroed hard drive hasn't been done as far as i know.simply doing a "1 zero pass" will invert all the "1's" to "0's" (remember there are only 1's and 0's) hence "zeroing" however there is software available that can detect newly magnetized "0's" it simply re-inverts the "0's" to "1's" if you do a "7 zero pass" it's pretty much impossible to retrieve any information off the hard drive. look into the "DoD 5220.22-m" standard or "gutmann".hope this is useful.

Can I put my old hard drive in a new computer?

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As long as you wipe the drive and reinstall the OS. This is because the drive has settings compatible with one computer that differs from another's settings. Unless both computers are identical.