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The system identifies the correct designation for a floppy drive through the BIOS or UEFI firmware during the boot process. It scans for connected drives, assigns a designation based on the detected drive's order and type, typically labeling them as A: or B: for floppy drives. The operating system then references these designations to access the floppy drive for reading or writing data. If multiple drives are present, the system uses the configuration settings to prioritize which drive gets which designation.
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What is the file system for a 5.25 floppy disk?
Floppy disks use a FAT file system.
What file system used by floppy?
Under Windows, a floppy drive is always formatted using the FAT 12 file system.
What is the name of a floppy disk containing enough of an operating system to boot?
Boot Disk or Boot Floppy
When were floppy disks created?
IBM invented the floppy about 1971 for loading microcode into their System/370 computers.
What do you need to get to retrieve info off a floppy?
A floppy drive in your computer and an operating system capable of reading it.
What is one advantage of having two floppy drives on a system?
It makes it much easier to copy a floppy disk.
How can you disable the floppy disk from the regestry?
The best way to disable a floppy disk drive is to disable the floppy interface from the system BIOS. This should remove all traces of the floppy disk drive to the operating system. It is also easier to reverse should the disk need to be enabled again later,
How many floppy drives can connect one floppy drive cable inside a computer case?
Normally a floppy drive interface can be used to connect two floppy disk drives. However this may vary from system to system, some systems may also have two interfaces. It may be necessary to purchase a floppy drive cable with two connection headers.
Which file system does a floppy disk use?
FAT12
What is the Dewey Decimal System designation for a book on same-sex marriage?
The official designation is 346.0168.
What are the similarities of A and C drive?
The similarities depend on the platform. But generally the only similarity is they are drives in a drive letter access system. On Wintel machines that had them back in the day, A was the designation for floppy drives and C was the designation for the first hard disk. Keep in mind that how a drive is actually exposed to the user is entirely up to the operating system. While Windows will have an A: C: D: drive, etc. Linux allows access to them by mounting their device files right on the directory tree and there ARE no drive letters. For example, a floppy drive is likely going to be /dev/fd0. One can insert the disk, then as root: mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /media/floppy (Assuming there is a directory /media/floppy.). Then you can just change to that directory using a shell or file manager and access it as if it were just any other subdirectory on your filesystem. Today floppy drives are nearly extinct. The high dendity floppies we had just a decade ago just plain don't have the capacity to be useful, and with DVD-RW and flash media being the standard removable media there's no motivation to create a "new floppy."
How many floppy drives can connect to one floppy drive cable inside a computer case?
Normally a floppy drive interface can be used to connect two floppy disk drives. However this may vary from system to system, some systems may also have two interfaces. It may be necessary to purchase a floppy drive cable with two connection headers.
