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What is it called when a hard drive writes a sector and skips one or more sectors then writes another one?
Interleaving.
What is the process of Tracks and sector markings are written to a hard drive before it leaves the factory?
reed memory
Track and sector markings are written to a hard drive before it leaves the factory in a process called?
Low-level formatting
What happens if an operating system encounters a used cluster as it writes a file to a hard drive?
It splits information in pieces and writes it in different parts of a hard drive. This is one of reason where the fragmentation comes from.
What is the smallest unit of a data on a hard drive platter?
SECTOR!
What is the smallest storage access unit on an ide hard drive?
The smallest storage access unit on an IDE hard drive is a sector.
Where is the master boot record located?
The first sector on the Hard Drive
How large is each sector on a hard drive?
A sector has a fixed size; it will always be 512 bytes. A cluster can be as small as one sector, and can be as big as it needs to be.
What is the part of a hard drive that moves back and forth and reads or writes data?
The head.
What is found in a reserved area of a hard drive?
The reserved are consists of the volume boot sector, often abbreviated as simply boot sector.
To keep boot sector viruses at bay what is used to disable the ability to write to the boot sector of the hard drive?
BIOS setup
Is an external hardrive an input device or an output device?
It is spelled 'hard drive'. Considering the nature of a hard drive, you might say "both". All hard drives provide input and output. Input is performed when your operating system reads a sector looking for data or a program. Output is performed when your operating system writes to the hard drive to swap or store data.
