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512 bytes
Yes, 512 bytes (0.5 Kb) is the current standar. However, this is likely to be increased to 4096 bytes (4 Kb). Vista and Win7 already support larger sector sizes. The drive can be "asked" programatically in windows using a WMI query (win32_DiskDrive.BytesPerSector) or using a free tool such as WMI Explorer.
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What are hard disks measured in?
mega-bytes(MB),kilo-bite(KB) or gigabites(GB)
How large is each sector on a hard drive?
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.
Can you give examples of a sentence with the word sector in it?
Hard disks are organized into sectors, tracks, and cylinders.
What are 3.25 inch or 5.25 inch diskettes?
Commonly known as floppy disks. These were preceded by 8" disks.These disks were either hard or soft sectored. The hard sectored disks had holes punched, either at the outside, or inside periphery to indicate the start of a sector.
What is the capacity of the hard drive if the number of track is 80 and number of sector is 18 in mega bytes?
THE SIZE WILL BE 720Mb
What is a boot virus and how do you get it.?
A boot sector virus is a computer virus infecting the boot sector on hard and floppy disks. When the computer becomes infected and successfully boots, the virus can then infect media that is written to by the infected computer, replicating itself and spreading through the sharing of disks and software applications.
Which of the seven domains of a typical IT infrastructure can access privacy data and also store it on local hard drives and disks?
work station domain
What is the name of the first 512 bytes on a hard drive?
it called bootsector after POST boot sector is write in address 0:7c00 boot sector for running have a signature ,in its 510 th address it shoud have 0xaa55h ali failee
Did the first computer have hard disks?
no
What is the difference between hard disks and floppy disks?
hard disks are generally contains within the computer and contain FAR more memory than a floppy disk does. floppy disks generally contain 1.44 mb where as hard drives are constantly developing and are currently about 1TB MAX. floppy disks are external in the same way as CD's
Data capacity measurements in disk drive?
Bytes Kilo Bytes Mega Bytes Giga Bytes Tera Bytes a byte is really smal, a kilo byte is a thousand bytes a mega byte is a thousand kilo bytes a giga byte is a thousand mega bytes a tera byte is a thousand giga bytes Bytes = b Kilo Bytes = Kb Mega Bytes = Mb giga bytes = Gb tera bytes = Tb a text document might be like 10kb a music file might be 4mb a video might be like 30mb a typical hard drive is like 250gb for a laptop and 500gb for a desktop Tera Bytes are only used in super computers or servers although they are appearing in desktops some of the larger hard drives are 1.5Tb or 1500 gb some older laptop have hard drives ranging from 20gb to 80gb a typical USB Flash drive is 2gb a new ipod ranges from 8gb to 120gb older ones come in sizes as small as 512Mb aka 0.5gb Ram of a computer can range from as little as 32mb in an older computer and as much as 8gb in some desktop computers in the price range of $800+ hope i helped, if you need a better explaination (god knows why) then email me @ davidkneiber@yahoo.com You are welcome, David K
Hard disks CDs DVDs USB drives and floppy disks are?
Secondary Storage
