There are no tracks on it until you put tracks on it.
The floppy disk which is commonly referred to as a high density floppy disk is a 3.5 inch disk. It has a storage capacity of 1.44 MB.
A standard high density double-sided floppy disk holds about 1.44 mb.
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no one uses floopy disks anymore
The most common ones most people are familiar with were 1.44MB, but there were many sizes of "floppy disk" from about a hundred kilobytes to a couple hundred megabytes. Nowadays, the answer is 1.44 for a double sided high density 3.5" floppy disk. This answer is quite different for other types of floppy disks. There are single sided, double sided, single density, double density, high density , 5.25", 3.5", and 8" floppy disks just to name a few of the many, MANY variations. * low density capacity: 360 kbytes * hi density capacity : 720 kbytes * double hi density: 1.44 megabytes There are other (rare) formats that can hold more.
Last century when desktop computers were invented they stored information on floppy disks. The last of the floppy disk to be used could take 1.44Megabyte. These days we have USB drives which will take 8Gigabyte or about 7 000 times a high density diskette
4mb unformatted, 2.88mb formatted (depending on format, of course). Toshiba made a model PMF-2ED "4MB Extra High Density" also marked "ED". Here is a picture of one: http://www.zimmers.net/tmpsampleeddisk.jpg (I'm fixing to auction 110 of them, so I googled around to find out how common they were).
Most likely, you are confusing a 1.44 MB (HD) floppy disk with an even older 720 KB (DD) disk. These had only half the capacity, but are otherwise functionally identical. These disks can be distinguished by their lacking a hole on the lower right-hand side that newer floppy disks do. It is also possible that your BIOS is set up incorrectly so that the drive operates as a double-density drive instead of the correct high-density drive.
It depends on the size and format. The most common type of floppy disk still in use stores about 1.4 Mb, though there are special very high density disks that require special drives and can store larger amounts.
Magnetic storage has come a long way since 1967 when IBM developed the 8-inch floppy disk. However, I assume you are referring to the 5 1/4 floppy that came out in 1976 and the 3 1/2 high-density disk that came out in 1987. The three major differences between these two disks are the physical size, the storage size, and the speed. The 3 1/2 disks were much quicker, smaller in size, and held more data.
you can use a floppy disk
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