about 1.4 MB
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.
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
You can identify a high-density 3.5-inch floppy disk by checking its label or markings. High-density disks typically have a storage capacity of 1.44 MB and are often labeled as "HD" or "1.44MB." Additionally, you can look at the disk itself; high-density disks usually have a darker casing compared to low-density (720 KB) disks, which may be gray or lighter in color. Lastly, high-density disks have a small hole on the back side that allows the drive to detect the disk type.
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.
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.
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Because floppy drives (like CD-ROM drives) are very inexpensive. It will cost you $10 at the high end for a brand new floppy drive, just asking a technician to look at your floppy drive could cost more than that.
1.44 MB
There are no tracks on it until you put tracks on it.
Because floppy drives are irrelevant. A high density 3.5" floppy could hold 1.44 MB of information. That's tiny compared to the amount of data that will fit on a USB memory stick costing $1 or so.
224 for a 3 1/2 inch floppy