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A hard disk drive records data by magnetizing a thin film of ferromagnetic material on a disk. Sequential changes in the direction of magnetization represent binary data bits. The data is read from the disk by detecting the transitions in magnetization. User data is encoded using an encoding scheme, such as run-length limitedencoding, which determines how the data is represented by the magnetic transitions.

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What does the harddisk do?

A computer's hard disk or hard drive stores information such has the operating system, programs, and files. It stores the information as small magnetic fields on the hard disc.A hard disk drive is a non-volatile storage device that stores digitally encoded data on rapidly rotating rigid (i.e. hard) platters with magnetic surfaces.


What will happen if you format a disk that already contains files of data?

Formatting a disk that contains files of data can result in total data loss. Unless you have backed up all the data from a drive (if possible), do not format unless you are prepared to lose everything including your operating system, which you will then need to reinstall.


What do you do when the computers hard disk crashed and all the data that were not backed up are lost?

create new files.


What unit is the smallest unit of disk space that stores data and information?

It all depends on how your disk is formatted.


How do you do data recovery from a hard disk that is over written?

There are many specialists available for hard disk recovery, one of which is Stellar data recovery. They solves the recovery issue with their specified softwares and it retrieves all the lost files.


What is an online file storage system?

A service that stores all of your files and documents in a remote location in case something happens to your computer and you lose all of your data & files.


What is HDD used for?

HDD stands for Hard drive disk. The HDD is what all your files are saved to. It a double sided disk that is build to be read at extremely high speeds.


What do hard disk drives do?

hard disk drives (HDD) store all the data, operating systems (windows,mac etc) and all the files. HDD is the most important drive and there cannot be a PC without it.


How you will handle the problem of the response time on your disk is slow?

Run a system cleaner to delete unuseful files like temporary files and run defragmentation. A GOOD free software for this is CCleaner, from Poliform. its free and it can scan all your rubbish files, and clean the registry which will make your computer faster.


How do you permanently delete data off hard disk?

There are two variants of doing it: 1. Delete all the files from the disk a nd than rewrite it. All the data will be overwritten. 2. Use one of cleaning programs: so called cleaners.


What do disk drive?

In computers these are mass storage components where data is stores for the computer to access and act on it. There are many forms of disk drives some are not mechanical at all but in all instances they are mass storage units


How do you backup a file?

you copy all the original files to a another hard disk or flash drive before formatting the disk with the original files