How are data files saved on floppy disks?

Answer 1

Put a floppy disk in the drive. With Windows, go to file save as, then go to the drop down box. At the top of that box, go the 3 1/2 floppy and save it.

it is done by a reading light that passes over dints in the disk which is allocated inside the platic cover which forms the binery cod 1 and 0 forming data blocks form the code, e.g

110110010111011101101

thanks boris

The answer above is refering in principle to how CD's work - NOT floppies. Floppy disks store binary data as a series of magnetic dots on the surface of the disk and are written to / read from by a voice coil (electro-magnet).

Answer 2

"In general, data is written to floppy disks in a series of sectors, angular blocks of the disk, and in tracks, concentric rings at a constant radius, e.g. the HD format of 3½-inch floppy disks uses 512 bytes per sector, 18 sectors per track, 80 tracks per side and two sides, for a total of 1,474,560 bytes per disk."

Obtained from Wikipedia. See the related link below for more information.

Answer 3

You right click on the file and click send to and then choose the floopy drive options usually A:

Answer 4

There is no specific file format; the different file types are the same as those on a hard drive.

Answer 5

well u type the information...save in on de computer n do waever lol

Answer 6

flopy disk store data magnatically

Answer 7

Any file under 1.4 MB