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List three types of information contained in a hard drive's partition table?
A map to the partitions on the hard drive. This table tells BIOS how many partitions the drive has and how each partitions is divided into one or more logical drives, which partition contains the drive to be used for booting (called the active partition), and where each logical drive begins and ends.1-map to the partitions on on the hard drive2-information about where each logical drive is located, where it starts and where it ends3-which partition contains the drive to be used for booting (the active partition)The first is a map to the partitions on the harddrive,and how they are divided, the second, which partition contains the drive to be used for booting this is called the "Active Partition", and third where each logical begin and ends.
What kind of information is stored in the boot recorder?
It contains information about the disk or logical drive.
List three types of information contained in a hard drive's partion table?
This table of information contained is,the table tells BIOS how many Partion the drive has and how each parition is divied into one or mone logical drivers and which partion contains the drive to be used for booting called the active boot and where each logical dive begins and ends
When each logical drive is formatted a sibgle directory table is placed on the drive called what?
It's Root Directory
What is boot sector?
The first sector of a floppy disk or logical drive in a partition; it contains information about the disk or logical drive. On a hard drive, if the boot sector is the active partition, then it is used to boot the OS (Operating System; i.g Windows Vista is an OS). Boot sector is also called the boot record.
How many logical drives can be created on a fat drive?
When you partition a hard drive into two or more partitions (storage areas) those extra drives are called logical drives. So you can have 2 or 3 or more logical drives on one physical hard drive. It varies.
What happens when you format a logical drive?
When you format a logical drive you prepare it for use.
What is another name for a logical drive?
Another common name for a logical drive is a partition.
What is the name of the table at the beginning of a hard drive that tells where logical drives are stored on the hard drive?
It's called the MFT table (for NTFS).
What is this technology called When the OS addresses the sectors of the hard drive as one long list of sequential sectors?
LBA (Logical block addressing) LBA (Logical block addressing) LBA (Logical block addressing)
What is another term for a hard drive?
logical drive
When the os addresses the sectors on a hard drive as one long list of sequential sectors what is the technology called?
LBA (Logical block addressing) LBA (Logical block addressing) LBA (Logical block addressing)
