Floppy Disk Drives

First, make sure you have backed everything up and have nothing on the PC you don't want to lose. The FDISK command will overwrite the entire partition table and render everything on the hard drive useless. Then you start FDisk from the console mode, not within Windows, and then you delete the existing partitions if you don't want them, and then start over with partitions sized to what you want.

Do keep in mind that for most cases, you should use a Windows-based partition editor such as EaseUS Partition Master. They are easier to use and lets you configure existing partitions without deleting partitions first.

No. Zip drives cannot read floppy disks, and cannot be used on a traditional floppy controller.

if you just save something like a word document and you just click save it wont save the word document in the location you want to save it to where as if you click save as you choose a specific location to save a document.

The speed varies from the size of the floopy disk.

on average it tends to be quite slow. (:

FAT or FAT32.

For a CD-ROM to become write-protected, it must either be full, or have it's sessions closed so that no further data can be written to the disk. Here is a brief explanation of disc sessions:

Data burned to a CD or DVD is laid out in sessions. These sessions are composed of a lead-in which holds the table of contents for the disc. Next is the lead out. A blank CD or DVD can only acquire 99 tracks per session. Sometimes multiple sessions are required to burn all content to DVD or CD media. In these cases, the lead in contains an "address" or directions that clue the new session in on the previous burn session history.

So in summary, the odds are that your disc can no longer have information added to it.

They have been significantly succeded by smaller, more rigid forms of data storage media with greater protection and storage capacity.

For more information about the history of floppy disks and storage devices, see Related Links below this box.

This usually occurs after formatting or putting a new hard drive into a system and needs to be fidisked. To do this get to a dos prompt usuing a bootable floppy, type in fdisk and partition the hard drive using the on screen options (create new partition)(fat32 for windows 95/98/me ntfs for nt/xp/2000)

First, you can A. do physical damage to the drive so no info can be taken or B. wipe the hard drive so there is nothing on it (Google how to wipe a hard drive).

Now, go to a website like Earth911.com and enter your zip code then click search. Then, listings of places where you can bring your hard drive or circuit boards will pop up, click on one of those.

Finally, it should show you an address where you can bring your electronics to get properly disposed.

Currently, inside a regular desktop PC the largest unit of size would be 1 TB (1000 GB), and with this unit it becomes very difficult to completely fill the storage device.

However, potentially, the largest is the yobibyte, which is a whopping 10,000,000,000,000,000,000 bits of data. Basically, if scaled down into human language it would be the information capacity of the observational universe, meaning every bit of known knowledge ever recorded, translated into every language and coppied 10,000,000 times over.

To make our backbones more flexible. In other words, to allow various movement. Besides, these discs can absorb shock to prevent our backbone from damaged.

The format for movies in the 1910's and 1920's was black and white silent films. No sound, no color. It was actually a reel of film.

Data or music at the lowest level can all be represented by bits.Bits are either 0 or 1. The 0 bit is represented by burning a pit on the CD surface using a laser. The information on a standard CD is encoded as a spiral track of pits moulded into the top of the polycarbonate layer.The areas between pits are known as lands (1 bit). Each pit is approximately 100 nm deep by 500 nm wide, To grasp the scale of the pits and land of a CD, if the disc is enlarged to the size of a stadium, a pit would be approximately the size of a grain of sand. The spiral begins at the center of the disc and proceeds outwards to the edge, which allows the different size formats available. If you find this info useul Please vote!!!

it was introduced because it was a simple and easy memory storage and then they introduced Cd's which killed the floppy discs

No, backup is most certainly not that. Formatting is the process fo dividing the disk into tracks and Sectors.

A Floppy disk is hardware. As a quick rule of thumb, any component, not only computing, that can physically exist without the need to take any special course of action for its generation, is Hardware. for instance, your computer and the floppy are hardware, but the data that resides inside your computer, or floppy, is software, since it has no physical existence of its own and can only be interacted with by accessing it through a suitable device like your computer.

How many tracks are there in 5.25 dshd disk

four wheel drive actuator less then $50 online at http://www.autozone.com. the four wheel drive actuator is basically an electronic hub locking system. replacing this part should fix 'er up!

p.s. i have a '94 s10 blazer vortec v6 same problem and it worked!

I think it crashes!! :-(

nothig will happen and you are a idiot because you dont know the spelling of sperm.

There are several guides online for formatting a floppy drive. WikiHow has step by step instructions with visual aids to complete the task properly. The website BleepingComputer can also help.

It is prepared to receive files after you insert it into the "A" drive

Then check properties to find available free space.

Off course , this information stored on hard disk can be copied to any other storage device like hard disk, DVD, USB Drive etc.