Floppy Disk Drives

I dont know about USB's but for floppys, yes direct heat and cold can damage a floppy as its not cased very well, they are typically meant to be disposable. Consider this, a single grass blade in a floppy disk can cause it to not read. and direct heat can melt or severly damage the floppy

Formatting prepares a floppy disk to store data

in a floppy drive, a small pin hits the area where that little switch is on the floppy. if it passes through, the floppy drive detects the floppy as write/read. it it doesn't pass through, the floppy drive detects the floppy as read only

A cubic foot box holds approximately 35 lbs of paper

A 24" letter size box holds approximately 55 lbs of paper

and a 24" legal size box holds approximately 65 lbs of paper

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Because floppies have barely any space when compared to CDs or even DVDs (1.44MB vs 700MB vs 4.7GB)

your Q is not obvious

if you mean how to save your faith in Islam

I`d say

pray at the time

keep reading the holy quran and try to feel it

ask Allah to help you

don`t do anything that quran and Prophet Muhammad told you never to do it

This can indicate several things. If the light has stayed on since the computer was powered on, the floppy ribbon cable is on upside-down. If it happens when the operating system has booted, you may have a program that is trying to read the disk and is failing. It may also be a problem with the drive itself, and it needs replacing.

Formatting destroys all data.

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They hardly compare technically, its like trying to compare a million square foot multilevel warehouse to matchbox.

Starting out with 5.25" floppies (I still have a working unit in my full tower for posterity), they hold about half a megabyte (525 kilobytes off the top of my head). Then came the 3.5" floppies, up to a whopping 1.44 megabytes, nearly tripling the 5.25's. Then we were starting to see hard drives, my first was 500 megabytes, now they're into terabytes, and for way less money than their ancestors. CD's, 700 megabytes, 800 on an overburn with the right media and burner. DVD's, between 4.7 gigabytes, and up to 2x, or 4x that amount on dual-layered and dual-layered/dual-sided discs, respectively.

The simple math: 1024 bytes = 1 kilobyte; 1024 kilobytes = 1 megabyte; 1024 megabytes = 1 gigabyte; 1024 gigabytes = 1 terabyte. I won't go into petabytes :-) Everything is in multiples of 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, etc. Kinda confusing that 'kilo' means 'thousand', yet everything jumps to the next term at 1024.

In direct comparison, one CD could hold as much information as roughly 486 1.44" floppies, or you could put nearly 7 CD's on a 4.7gigabyte DVD. (4.7 [gb]x 1024 [mb] / 700 [mb] = 6.875). A 2 terabyte hdd (2048 gigabytes) could hold between 256 and 435 full-length/full-quality DVD's, or even more if compression is used. Keep in mind, all media has less actual storage capacity than stated. The bigger the rated storage capacity of any media, the more information needed to define the storage 'areas' (file system/directories). For example, a 250gb hdd will 'format out' to roughly 232gb of usable space under NTFS (Windows NT File System).

I hope I either helped answer your question to your satisfaction, or at the very least made your brains percolate. There is plenty of information, as well as some tables available with a Google images search that might help explain it better than I can.

First there were "Super Floppies" that held about 2.88 MB of data... they didn't catch on very well. For a while, ZIP disks, with 100MB Each, were quite the rage. Now, with the inexpensive price of blank CD's, recordable CD's have become the replacement for floppies, especially since most computers can boot off of a CD or DVD anyway.

Master.

Yes, Format is a term for "clear out"

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Compact disk do

"Permanent storage", because the data does not disapear when the power is turned off.

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Either your mother board is cooked, or you're got a cool virus.

A standard high density double-sided floppy disk holds about 1.44 mb.

Any Windows XP install CD can be used for repair purposes. The only reason to use floppies is if your computer does not support booting from a CD drive.

It depends on what drive E was. It could be a number of reasons. If it was an external drive, it could of come unplugged or the drive has died. If it is a network drive it could have become disconnected or is no longer available. We need more info to be able to properly answer your question.

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