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Which has the largest potential for disk capacity a CD DVD floppy drive or zip drive?
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∙ 11y ago
Zip drive, floppy capacity is usually only ~1.4GB
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How did floppy disks improve computing?
Floppy drive was the first storage with portable data storage capacity.. However the data storing capacity of floppy drive is not enough but in early days it helped a lot..
Advantages and disadvantages of single floppy drive and no hard drive?
In old machines floppy drives were primarily used for booting up the machine. Floppy drive has a very small memory capacity. Almost all of the latest Operating Systems are larger than a Floppy drive capacity of e.g. 1.44MB. Floppy's are not as reliable as other media and can easily get corrupted.
Which Floppy-disk cartridges store at least 70 times the capacity of the standard floppy?
Zip Drive..
What is a zip drive?
A zip drive is a storage device similar to a floppy disc but of a larger capacity, 100, 250 or 750 megabytes.
You dont have a floppy drive how do you add pics from a floppy disk?
By buying a floppy drive. You can buy an external USB floppy drive for under $50.
Insert a blank into the floppy drive Describe the problem as a user sees it including error messages?
inessd a answer that why floppy disk shows 1.44mb while it has 1.47 mb capacity
What allan shugart invented?
THE FLOPPY DRIVE THE FLOPPY DRIVE
What is the capacity of the largest USB Flash drive?
2 TB
Floppy disk disadvantages?
Mainly lack of capacity. A floppy disk is usually 1.44 MB. Modern flash drives, hard drives, etc. are in the gigabytes and terabytes ! You can still use a floppy drive (I have a USB external floppy drive), but it will become more difficult to get new floppy disks as manufacturers abandon a rather antiquated media.
Which OS has a floppy drive?
The OS is a program. The computer has the floppy drive.
How do you know which drive is the floppy drive?
Typically, the A drive is the floppy drive; the C drive is the hard drive; and the D drive is the CD drive.
How does floppy disk write protection work?
in a floppy drive, a small pin hits the area where that little switch is on the floppy. if it passes through, the floppy drive detects the floppy as write/read. it it doesn't pass through, the floppy drive detects the floppy as read only
