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A sector has a fixed size; it will always be 512 bytes. A cluster can be as small as one sector, and can be as big as it needs to be.
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What does an external hardrive do?
An external hard drive is a device similar to your computer's hard drive. The difference is that it is portable. You can save files on it and it can be connected to most other computers.
What letter of the alphabet is assigned to a Hard drive?
d
What is the brain of the computer?
The hard drive with the necessary programming is the core of the computer.
Do cell phones contain hard drives?
NO, cell phones contin a cpu, input and output devices but no hard drive
Who was the first user of the hard disk drive?
Joseph Konrad Du Havre.
Can you backup your hard drive to a flash drive?
It is possible if you have a sufficiently large flash drive that can handle the volume of data to be backed up. It also depends on the the type of backup selected, sector for sector backup or selective data backup.
What writes sector markings to a hard drive?
partitioning
What is the smallest unit of a data on a hard drive platter?
SECTOR!
Where is the master boot record located?
The first sector on the Hard Drive
What is the smallest storage access unit on an ide hard drive?
The smallest storage access unit on an IDE hard drive is a sector.
What is found in a reserved area of a hard drive?
The reserved are consists of the volume boot sector, often abbreviated as simply boot sector.
To keep boot sector viruses at bay what is used to disable the ability to write to the boot sector of the hard drive?
BIOS setup
What is a wedge shaped slice on a disk is referred to?
sector prof for answer; a sector is a division of a storage medium on a hard drive diskette that is a wedge shaped section of one of the circular tracks
Which type of malware hides in the MBR program of a hard drive?
Boot Sector Virus
Can a ordinary hard drive be cloned onto a solid state hard drive?
Yes, easily. While under normal circumstances, a hard drive cloned to another hard drive is copied sector by sector so that the data is stored in the same location and fashion on the target as the source, the same is not true for SSDs since there are no platters but this is invisible to the cloning software. As far as it is concerned, the SSD is a typical hard drive and it will perform its task without hesitation.
Can you copy a large hard drive to a smaller hard drive?
as long as theres enough room on the smaller hard drive...then yes..
Are boot sector viruses limited to hard drives Explain?
Yes. They hide in the boot sector program of a hard drive or floppy disk or in the master boot program in the Master Boot Record.
