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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Floppy disks are an outdated form of magnetic data storage.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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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.
Explain about the storage capacity of computer?
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.
How many sectors are there in a 3 12 inch high-density floppy disk?
For a standard IBM formatted double sided, high density 3.5" floppy diskette, the following properties apply:
- Data is recorded on two sides of the disk
- Each side has 80 tracks
- Each track has 18 sectors
- Each sector holds 512 bytes (0.5 KB)
While often labeled as 1.44MB, this is not an accurate statement of a floppy disk's capacity. This is due to the confusion between binary and decimal, where K can be 1,024 or 1,000 and M can be 1,048,576 or 1,000,000.
If calculated completely in binary, a floppy would hold 1.40625 MB, while if calculated completely in decimal, it would hold 1.47456 MB. Obviously marketing wouldn't like to use either of these numbers!
But by doing the first half of the calculation in binary (getting 1440 KB), and then treating that as a decimal number and incorrectly converting it to 1.44 MB, you get an easy to read number.
What is the purpose of the intervertebral disk?
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.
What format was used for movies of the 1910s ans1920's?
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.
How does music get stored on a compact disk?
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!!!
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.
