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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Floppy disks are an outdated form of magnetic data storage.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 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.
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.
