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The MBR or Master Boot Record, (also known as Bootstrap) Partition Table, and possibly data from legacy Dynamic Drive Overlays which allowed older PC BIOS which did not support LBA (Logical Block Addressing) to access hard drives larger 504 MB.
Track0 is also used to store licensing information for some software because it is an area of the disk not easily accessed and manipulated.
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How is a bit stored in an optical disk?
As data in binary format of 0 & 1 on hard drive sectors.
What number is the outer most track on a hard disk?
track 0
What kind of memory is stored on a hard drive?
it uses a magnetic North/South binary, where a north magnetic pull is a 1, and a south is a 0
What is store in the first sector in track zero?
The first track 0 on your hard drive stores your Master Boot Record (MBR), it's a very small code and it's only job is to direct the arms of your hard drive to the beginning of your operating system. It's from an old term "Pulling you up by your boots", it's pulling up your operating system.
Why your dell laptop latitude c510 says no hard disk drive 0?
When the hard disk is dysfunctional or has crashed, the laptop cannot detect it. The error message 'No hard disk drive 0' will appear as a result.
What you is a byte?
8 bits or 2 nibbles. =D.A bit is a 1 or 0 in binary and is stored on your hard drive. Every bit of every byte of every megabyte of every gigabyte are 1s and 0s.
What does a zero-fill uttility do?
Fills the hard drive to 0's.
What are the risks of 0 memory on hard drive?
the computer can become very slow
This stores the data which tells the computer how to load the operating system when it is switched off or rebooted?
ROM ROM is an acronym for Read Only Memory. The advantage of ROM is that its contents do not evaporate when the power is switched off. Therefore the program which needs to execute when the computer is first switched on is stored in a ROM chip on the computer's motherboard. Once the program stored in the ROM chip has finished initialising the hardware, it moves the head of the hard disk to track 0, reads the first sector of track 0 into memory, and then passes control to the short program stored in the first sector of the hard disk. To simplify a bit, it is the responsibility of that program to locate the operating system files on disk, and then begin the process of loading them. hellllllllllllllllllllllllllllo
How is information stored on the hard drive of your computer?
Writing to Hard Disk Drive (HDD)At the most basic level when a computer writes anything to any media, even going back to the old "floppy" disks, it is in bits and bytes which are simply positive and negative images electronically recorded on the physical media. Some are one time only like a CD, others can be rewritten, some information can only be accessed sequentially, others must have an index.Hard dirves are made up of bits and bytes, sectors,files, indexes and they all inter-relate to store the information.The disk drive head writes a magnetic pattern onto the spinning metallic disk similar (but at a much greater speed & density), to the way the old floppy disks worked. A modern disk drive has several individual disks contained in one drive, on the same spindle, and multiple heads between the disks to achieve todays mega and gigabyte capacities, and speed. The head does NOT contact the media, but actually flies above the disk, analogous to a jet flying over a runway at full speed without ever landing. A "touch and go landing" of the drive's head would permanently damage the disk.
What would you find on track 0 of a hard drive?
The MBR or Master Boot Record (aka the Bootstrap), Partition Table, and possibly data from legacy Dynamic Drive Overlays which allowed older PC BIOS which did not support LBA (Logical Block Addressing) to access hard drives larger 504 MB. Track0 is also used to store licensing information for some software because it is an area of the disk not easily accessed and manipulated.
What is difference between elelectronic storage and hard copy storage?
Electronic Storage is usually referring to data stored on some type of computer related storage medium, such as hard drives, CDROM, memory cards, etc. In other words, its data in computer form, 1's and 0's, stored in a format that a computer understands. Hard Copy storage would be on paper or the equivalent, stored in human form and readable by us.
