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What type of viruses are often transmitted by a floppy disk left in the floppy drive?
Boot sector virus
What is boot sector?
The first sector of a floppy disk or logical drive in a partition; it contains information about the disk or logical drive. On a hard drive, if the boot sector is the active partition, then it is used to boot the OS (Operating System; i.g Windows Vista is an OS). Boot sector is also called the boot record.
What holds the floppy disk also called the AA drive?
Correction: the "A" Drive is a floppy disk dirve that holds, reads and writes on the floppy disk.
True statement about formatting a floppy disk for the first time?
Formatting prepares a floppy disk to store data
The first sector on the disk called the boot sector or record contains the information about how the disk is organized and the file system used?
BOOT record
When was the floppy disk built?
Allan Shugart invented the first floppy disk in 1967 which was 8 inches in diameter.
Can a file that is 1600 KB fit on a traditional floppy disk?
Yes, but only if the disk is formatted with a smaller number of bytes per sector.
What is floppy disk slot?
a floppy disk slot is what you put the floppy disk in on a CPU
How do you calculate the capacity of a floppy disk?
To calculate the capacity of a floppy disk, you need to know its specifications, including the number of sectors, the size of each sector, and the number of tracks. The formula is: Capacity = Number of Tracks × Number of Sectors per Track × Size of Each Sector. For example, a standard 3.5-inch floppy disk typically has 80 tracks, 18 sectors per track, and a sector size of 512 bytes, resulting in a capacity of approximately 1.44 MB.
What does it mean to over write on a floppy disk?
If the same data is already in the floppy disk or any other disk, and you are again copying the same data, then it is called the overwriting ..
What type of disk was first developed as permanent data storage?
floppy disk
does a floppy disk hold information?
A floppy disk DRIVE can read, erase and save information on a floppy disk. The disk can't do it by himself.
