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Floppy Disk Drives

Floppy disks are an outdated form of magnetic data storage. Questions about floppy disk drives and floppy disks themselves belong here.

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What year was the first 3.5 floppy disk invented?

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

Is backup the process of dividing the disk into tracks and sectors?

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

Is a floppy disk considered hardware or software?

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.

Why does my 1994 Chevy s10 blazer shift into 4 wheel drive low but not into 4 wheel drive high?

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!

If i put spurm on vagina whai will happen?

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

How can one format a floppy drive?

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.

What prepares a floppy diskette so it ready to receive files?

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

Then check properties to find available free space.

Whether the information stored on hard disk can be copied or not?

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

What is the uses of bootable file in external usb floopy disk drive?

This is useful when your computer lost boot.ini file. Also it is useful after a major system failure if the system doesn't load OS.

Why does your floppy drive chatter for about 30 sec when you boot up?

It is checking to see if a bootable disk (i.e. windows startup disk) is inserted. Obviously, if it didn't check + your computer didn't work then you wouldn't be able to use your startup disk.

What are the best quality floppy discs?

Floppy discs are fairly old technology now. Many manufacturers have stopped making them. On the other hand, they have been making them for so long that you have to believe that they've figured out how to do it properly by now, so it probably doesn't much matter which ones you buy.

Seriously, though, If you're using floppy discs today you'd better plan to move on to a combination of flash and optical storage media before your data degrades to unreadability on those old floppies.

One thing I do like about floppy discs is that you can set them to read-only. This is an option that is not available on flash drives, except for SD, and then only in software. Malicious software could still write to a supposedly read-only SD card.

What is the problem when a massage come 'can not read from source file or disk' when you are trying to copy form floppy drive?

This means that Windows is unable to read the floppy disk. The floppy disk is likely damaged, and no data can be copied from it.

How long does take to read a disk with 800 cylinders each containing 5 tracks of 32 sectors?

we have seek = 10-50 ms

so ,

average seek = (10+50) / 2 = 30ms

and the access time = seek + latency = 20 + 30 = 50 ms

What is s switch used for in format disk?

The "-s" switch in the format command is used to format the disk so that it is a "system" disk. In other words, it makes it a "bootable" disk.

What is the purpose of a raid driver?

A RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) driver is used to enable a computer to utilize RAID, which could either improve hard drive performance or allow mirrors of pertinent data.

How the working of floppy disk drive differ from hard disk drive?

The head(s) in floppy drives make physical contact with the floppy disk surface, while the heads in hard disk drives fly over the hard disk surface on a cushion of air created by the platter rotation speed. All other features of the devices are similar.

How can you develop my country?

I can not develop your country, the development of your country is up to you and your countrymen/women.