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What type of viruses are often transmitted by a floppy disk left in the floppy drive?
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Boot sector virus
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What happens of pin 1 on the floppy drive data cable is not aligned with pin 1 on the drive connector?
The floppy drive will not work. Occasionally, an improperly installed cable will damage the drive electronics, but more often, the light on the front of the drive will stay on constantly, to indicate that something is wrong.
What partition is used to boot the system?
This is most often the system partition, or the "C" drive, alternatives include the optical drive if you select that drive, or the floppy disk drive ("A" Drive) on older computers.
What is the POST error code series for the floppy drive system?
The error codes for floppy drives are 60x with 601 being the A: drive and 602 being the B: drive. Those errors most often come up when the data cable is disconnected or not fully seated to the back of the floppy drive. If the cable is installed upside down (which can happen), then the drive will spin and spin while the computer generates that 601 or 602 error code. Just disconnect the cable, turn it the other way, and the drive should then work normally.
What do the drive letters A C and D typically represent?
A: is the first floppy drive and is seldom in use today. C: is most often the first master hard drive partition. D: is most commonly the CD Rom in a system with a single hard drive partition.
Why the cable of floppy is twisted on one end?
a floppy ribbon cable that tricks the computer into using the drive as A:. This is done with the use of a special twist in the cable that electrically changes the DS configuration of the drive after the twist. This twist, then, causes the controller to think the drive configured as B: is really configured as A:. For this reason, during installation of a floppy drive, always make sure your Drive A: is located AFTER the twist on the floppy ribbon cable. If you are trying to use a non-standard floppy cable without a twist, you'll have to change the DS jumper to DS1, or the Drive A: setting.
Viruses are often carried to the host through the?
Viruses are often carried to the host through the air.
What type of power connector does a floppy disk use?
It varies. There's no universally adopted external floppy disk drive standard, so it depends on the type of drive and/or computer you have. Modern (2008) external floppy drives commonly use USB (Universal Serial Bus). This isn't really a "floppy drive connector"; it's just an ordinary USB connector. The drive unit itself contains the electronics to make the floppy drive work with USB computers. The original IBM-PC line (circa 1981) included an external floppy drive option, which used a 37-pin D-shell sub-miniature connector. These weren't all that common to begin with, and are extremely rare these days. The early Macintosh computers (circa 1984) included an external floppy drive port, which used a 19-pin D-shell sub-miniature connector. SCSI floppy disk drives exist, but were always fairly rare. Some manufacturers introduced external floppy drives with manufacturers-specific (non-standard) connectors. Generally, you had to use the manufacturer's expansion card and floppy drive together. Some manufacturer external floppy connectors were mechanically compatible with the 25-pin D-shell sub-miniature parallel port connector. This allowed the same computer port to be used for either printer or floppy. However, parallel and floppy are not electrically compatible, so only a computer specifically designed for this would work. Dell used it in some of their laptops (Latitude C series, for example).
Why can't my computer find hard diskette?
Make sure that the floppy drive is on BIOS. Also diskettes are not reliable, you need to have at 2 of them (sometimes even more because they fail very often).
Can humans catch throat virus from dogs?
Dogs cannot get most viruses carried by humans as these viruses cannot cross the species barrier. Deadly viruses like rabies can cross the barrier between species, but are more often transmitted from the dog to the human. A common misconception is that dogs can catch a cold or flu from their owners but this is untrue
What are the Main advantages of hard disk drive?
its a storage device, it stores information
When does polio happen?
The polio virus is often transmitted via fecal matter. It can also be transmitted through food or water or an infected person.
What are difference between bacteria and viruses.?
-viruses and alive but bacteria is -viruses spread but dont multiply or change in your body, bacteria are alive and are often evolving -viruses cannot be treated, but bacteria can be eliminated with chemincals and anitbiotics
