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Is the notebook PC have external optical and floppy disk?
You can use USB floppy disk drive in any machine..
Why cant you have drive B on PC?
The B: drive was originally used back in the days when having two floppy drives was common. A: and B: are reserved for floppy drive use.
Where is the floppy disk drive located?
You would have to search online for an external floppy disk drive or buy an old PC that has one. In the "old days" every computer had a built-in floppy drive. It would always be right in the front. About a 4" wide slot.
How many floppy disk sizes are there that can go in a computer?
The only floppy drive system commercially available today is the 3.5" floppy disk drive. Previously there were both 5.25" and 8.00" disks/drives also available for PC's.
Put a floppy disk that is not bootable in drive A and reboot Write down what you observe If the PC booted to the desktop as usual why didnt it look to the floppy disk to load the OS?
Because the hard drive obviously came before the floppy drive in the BIOS boot order.
Is it possible for a floppy drive to change the format of a floppy disk from FAT to RAW and can this be corrected?
Yes it is possible to change the format of a floppy disk from FAT to RAW if the operating system on the PC, which the floppy is to be formated is using but the RAW format than the flopy will have the RAW format at the end of formating the floppy
Why you give computer first drive name c?
because in the IBM PC drives a and b were dedicated to floppy drives.
When saving a disk save to drive a or c?
In Windows, Drive C: is the first hard drive.On the PC compatibles (DOS then Windows, which was a program running under DOS), drive A: was reserved for the first floppy disk drive and B: for the second floppy disk drive. Drive C: was reserved for the first hard drive.Many computers don't even have floppy drives anymore, but the first hard drive is still labeled C:
When selecting secondary storage devices for a new desktop PC which is more important a CD-ROM drive or a floppy drive Why?
Floppy drives are not as necessary as they once were because the industry is moving toward storage media that can hold more data, such as CDs.The CD-ROM or optical drive. Floppy disk drives have stagnated in development; any off-the-shelf drive these days will support the highest commonly available capacity, 1.44 MB. Many people these days don't even use floppy disks.
What exactly is a PC tower used for?
"A PC tower is what houses the various components of a PC that are required for the computer to function. A few of the major components housed in the PC tower are the hard drive, floppy drives, optical drives, and the motherboard."
What can hold the most memory in a computer?
floppy disc. No, the above is incorrect. In a normal PC, your hard drive contains the most information.
How do you format your PC if you do not have a floppy drive installed?
boot from a cd (slackware has live boot added by defult on cd2 .. there are fdisk and cfdisk on it)
