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Floppy and CD drives are not meant to be maintained. You can blow dust out of them with canned air occasionally, but if they fail, replace them. The only caveat to this is laptop CD drives. A cotton swab with isopropyl alcohol and a swift swirl on the laser head will keep it reading smoothly.
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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.
The disk drive is used to store data on what?
A floppy drive or a CD drive or a DVD drive.
What is the command to change to the floppy drive in MS-DOS?
Floppy drives are identified by drive letters A and B. To change between them, simply enter CD A: or CD B:
What is a portable storage medium?
Cd,DVD Floppy disk etc
Which has the largest potential for disk capacity a CD DVD floppy drive or zip drive?
Zip drive, floppy capacity is usually only ~1.4GB
Can CD-r drive be used as a floppy drive?
Data can be copied to CDs (Compact Discs) which are writable/rewritable and need a CD/DVD burner to write data. The difference between a floppy and CD is that floppy is a magnetics media and CD an optical media (read/write happens with help of a laser light). - Neeraj Sharma
What is the top drive called?
If you put floppy disks in it, its called a floppy disk drive (FDD), if you put CDs/DVDs in it its called a CD/DVD drive
What is disk read?
Hard Drive:Possibly because your filesystem is broken or corrupt. TO FIX: MUST HAVE WINDOWS INSTALL DISK/RESTORE, THEN REINSTALL, MUST HAVE ACTIVATION KEY FOR REINSTALL! CD/DVD DRIVE: WORN OUT DISC, BROKEN CD/DVD PLAYER, CORRUPT/BROKEN OR NO FILESYSTEM, NO FILESYSTEM AS IN YOU NEED TO FORMAT THE DISC OR REPLACE YOUR CD/DVD DRIVE OR REPLUG IDE PLUG. FLOPPY DISK:NO FLOPPY IN DRIVE, BROKEN/DAMAGED DRIVE, CORRUPT OR UNFORMATTED DISK, UNPLUGGED IDE ON MOTHERBOARD. FIX: FORMAT FLOPPY, REPLACE FLOPPY DRIVE, PUT FLOPPY IN DRIVE. Disk read error is because your Harddisk's/CD/DVD drive/Floppy Drive is broken, corrupt, missing, unformatted or unplugged.
What is a hardware consumable?
Floppy Drive, Pen Drive, CD/DVD are called as a consumable hardware.
Name 3 kind of storage drive?
zip disk drive floppy disk drive cd drive dvd drive
What is a unit that read and writes onto CD's or floppy disk called?
A unit that reads and writes onto CDs is called a CD drive or CD writer. For floppy disks, the device is referred to as a floppy disk drive (FDD). Both types of drives are used to access and store data on their respective media formats.
What are all secondary storage devices?
Hard drive, CD, and Floppy disk
