Most floppy disks will come pre-formatted. All floppy disks need to be formatted to be usable.
Disks and partitions should be formatted before usage.
Tracks and sectors
Basic disks and dynamic disks are two types of hard disk configurations in Windows. Most personal computers are configured as basic disks, which are the simplest to manage. Dynamic disks can make use of multiple hard disks within a computer to duplicate data for increased performance and reliability.
The sector identification on a disk that the drive uses to locate sectors for reading and writing. Today's IDE and SCSI hard disks are low-level formatted at the factory.Read more: low-level-format
Yes, it must partitioned and formatted.
A disk cluster is a location on a disk's surface that stores data. Most disks are divided into platters/cylinders, tracks, and sectors, and sectors are grouped into clusters when formatted with a file system.
Yes ,If you do not have the latest patches and the most updates anti virus software
no
hard disks are generally contains within the computer and contain FAR more memory than a floppy disk does. floppy disks generally contain 1.44 mb where as hard drives are constantly developing and are currently about 1TB MAX. floppy disks are external in the same way as CD's
Secondary Storage
To the IDE cable, 2 Hard disks can be connected as Master and Slave.(Hard disks that support IDE). 4 SATA ports could be used for 4 Hard Disks.