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It is a good idea to write protect on a floppy disk because it is a back to make sure the disk doesn't get overwritten. A disk can also be write protected by pushing a small tab on top of the disk to reveal a hole.
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∙ 15y agobecause it is a back up idea.
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Can a floppy disk be affected by a magnet?
Yes, a floppy disk will be affected by a magnet. Many floppy disks have magnetic components so coming into contact with permanent magnets can damage them.
Is formatting a floppy disk a good way for backing up computer files?
no
Which is NOT a good media source for backing up an entire hard disk?
floppy
What are the error codes of floppy drive?
It means a bad spot was detected on the floppy when your computer tried to write or read data from the disk. Most of the time, the drive head that reads the data has become dirty, but sometimes there is physical damage. Rotate the disk in the sleeve. If you see scratches, dents, or folds on the surface, the disk is no good. There is a floppy disk cleaning kit that can be used to clean the head. They have a white fibre disk in the floppy, instead of the plastic disk with brown magnetic coating. To use a cleaning kit. Put a squirt of the head cleaning solution in the slot on the cleaning disk, insert it, and access the disk a couple of times (i.e. use the DIR command at the dos prompt). If you have no head cleaning solution, use rubbing alcohol. Don't saturate the disk, just make a wet spot. The disk will wipe the head wet/dry as it rotates. It is possible to mark bad sectors and do data recovery on a floppy if necessary, but it requires an old copy of the Norton Utilities and some know how to do it. Good luck.
What allows Windows to read any floppy disk?
There is no such thing. Windows can only read floppy disks that are in good condition and have a file system it supports, namely FAT12 or FAT16.
What are the two ways in which you can load the MS-DOS core?
from a hard drive or from a good old fashioned floppy disk
How do you format a floppy disk?
Start->My Computer->Right click on the floppy drive->Format. There are two kinds of formatting. The first one is "fast" which takes only couple seconds and good with new floppy disk or trusted used ones. The second one is "long" and includes the low level formatting and it can take couple minutes.
What is a three and a half inch Disk Drive?
Otherwise known as a Floppy Disk. They were very popular before USB Flash Drives. Even while CD's existed, Floppy Disks were great because you could quickly and easily save any data you may have to a Floppy Disk. They didn't have much space on them, but they could save a good amount of documents on them. They weren't too reliable because it was like saving to a tape. They could break fairly easily. In terms of the actual drive, that would be in virtually every computer near the CD Drive and it would accept only the Floppy Disk. It was quite similar to a VCR (if you know what that is) where the eject button would physically kick the disk out of the drive (not a button per se). To access the disk, one would click My Computer on the PC and they should see an option for the drive, if one is connected to the machine.
How much memory can a floppy disk hold?
There have been several different types of disks that have been called "floppy" 1.44 megabytes could be stored on the most recent (3 1/2") floppies which were encased in hard plastic. Earlier there were both 5 1/4" and 8" floppies these had a smaller capacities, for example of 360 Kb or 140 Kb respectively
What materials are used to make floppy discs?
Floppy disks generally had the following makeup: - A thin, plastic disk that went practically all the way to the edge of whatever casing held the disk. - A center hole made of firmer material than the disk itself that was used to move the disk in a circle as data was written to and read. Earlier designs were plastic, while later designs were metal. - A thin coating of iron oxide on the inner plastic disk, on one or both sides (single density or double density), which "permanently" holds a magnetic charge if a strong magnet is placed near it. - A rigid plastic outer shell to protect the flexible inner plastic disk (the reason they were called "floppy disks"). - On later models, there was a spring loaded metal sheath over the disk's main opening, which helped prevent dust buildup. - Also on later models, a cotton-like substance was included in the disk's interior on both sides to help remove dust as the disk was spun. - A small plastic tab (a sliding switch) was available on some floppies; when set to a particular position, the disk's drive controller would refuse to write data to the disk, making it "read only." So, basically, a few bits of metal, a few bits of plastic, coated with some more metal, and a bit of cotton for good measure.
What are inputoutput devices?
A microphone and a computer mouse has only an output. That is an input device. A loudspeaker and a printer has only an input. That is an output device. A read-write CD/DVD, floppy disk, tape drive, and hard drive are all I/O devices because they can be used to store and retrieve data.
How do you handle a floppy disk?
It really depends on the extent of the damage. You have to keep in mind that a floppy disk is a magnetic media, and hence the data stored on it is extremely vunerable. My general opinion is that you probably wouldn't be able to repair a physical damage, and hence, you'd end up losing all the data that's on it. Sometimes, if the damage is minimal you may be able to retrieve some data by using file-undeleting/retrieving software. But, this again is a matter of luck.
