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It is media contained in a plastic square 3-1/2" x 3-11/16" x 1/8"
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What type of device is a 3.5 inch floppy drive?
A user loadable disk drive.
Is a floppy disk 3.5 inch portable or fixed?
Floppy disk may be of any type is always portable, however the floppy disk "drives" are fixed.
A hard disk is type of magnetic storage device?
A hard disk drive is a type of magnetic storage device. A magnetic storage device stores data on a magnetized medium. Other types of magnetic storage includes magnetic recording tapes and the stripes on credit cards.
Why do Microsoft Works files get corrupted on floppy disk and how can you retrieve the file?
A file can be corrupted on a floppy disk any number of ways. Some of the more common ones are whenever you put the floppy disk near a magnet or some other source of ionized metal, if you try and pull the floppy disk out of the tray before the computer is done reading or writing it, or even if you somehow expose the inner part of the floppy disk to any type of electronic device (because of the electromagnetic waves that the electronic device gives off). As to how to retrieve the corrupted file, I don't know of any way to retrieve it.
What type of storage device holds the LEAST amount of information?
The storage device that stores the least amount of information is a floppy disk which only has a average storage space of 1mb
What type of disk was first developed as permanent data storage?
floppy disk
What is afloppy disk?
A floppy disk is an old type of removable, computer memory storage.
What type of viruses are often transmitted by a floppy disk left in the floppy drive?
Boot sector virus
What sort of power connector does a floppy disk drive typically use?
The power connectors used by both 5.25-inch and 3.5-inch floppy drives are 4-pin connectors. The larger connector--used by 5.25-inch drives--is called a Molex or peripheral cable. This type of cable is also used by IDE/ATA hard drives and optical drives. The smaller 4-pin cable used by 3.5-inch floppy drives is generally called a floppy power cable.
What type of devece are CD-rom and floppy disk?
A CD-ROM ( Compact Disc- Read Only Memory ) is an Optical Type of Device. The reason of it being optical lies in the fact that its read/write head is optical in nature ( It uses a red colored light).
What type of disks are made of either flexible or rigid plastic material?
Floppy disk.
What is the most common type of computer storage?
The most common type of computer file storage is Hard Disk , it is in built with computer . External Storage is Like CD , DVD , Pen Drive , Floppy Drive .
