Floppy Disk Drives

DVDs do not have partitions. They simply are one big partition that takes up the full back layer of the DVD. On the other hand, flash drives are able to make more than one partition because they are higher in capacity and partitions can be made in a flash drive's nand

The most common size of floppy disk is the 3-1/2 inch 1.44 MB disk.

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There are a millions answers to this question, and I have found non that answer this detail about no B drive.

The cool thing even before 3 1/2 inch disks, is you could just have 1 floppy drive and still be able the copy from one floppy to another. The B drive can work as a virtual drive. If need to copy somehting and had only one drive, you would issue a copy command and it would hold the information you want to copy on a virtual B drive. Place the original in, "copy to b drive" take out the original and put in a blank and it would copy the files to your B drive. This we found was always a cool tool. No need for a second floppy drive.

Many of the first personal computers did not have hard drives, or those that did had limited space on which to save data. Instead, the user saved the data on floppy discs. As computers evolved, storage media changed. Now, one can save virtually everything on a hard drive, either internal or external, a flash drive, a CD, or a DVD. When icons were first developed, floppy discs were the dominate storage media. Why change it now?

depends on the size of the files you want it burn or upload from a couple of mi sec to 20 mins

The disks may have become damaged, thus making them unreadable. It is also possible that one or both of the floppy drives involved had misaligned heads. The drive the wrote the files to the disk may have placed them incorrectly, and thus only that drive can read those disks now. Or the drive on the Windows XP computer may be misaligned, and can't read the disks created correctly.

Last century when desktop computers were invented they stored information on floppy disks. The last of the floppy disk to be used could take 1.44Megabyte.

These days we have USB drives which will take 8Gigabyte or about 7 000 times a high density diskette

If your asking about them being the smallest capacity of any type of storage median for computers, then yes and no.

They really are the smallest "Modern" storage medium for computers.

But during the 1980's systems like the Commodore PET and 64 used cassette tapes to store data. Those held about 32KB.

A machine shop can repair it if it is not damaged too severly. You may end up having to use oversize bearings. If it were me, I would replace it if it has very much damage.

No. However, there are adapters that would allow you to replace a floppy drive with an SD card reader. There are also special floppies that can hold an SD card, so you can use it in a classic floppy drive. If you need to use USB, you will need to install a USB controller in an available PCI expansion slot.

Open the case and see if the power AND the ribbon cable are both plugged in. If the drive's read light is staying on constantly the cable is connected backward. Also, make sure the floppy is properly set-up in the BIOS.

no, the head not touching the surface of the hard disk. If it touch the great chance of data may be lost. only the head of floppy disk is touch the surface of the disk.

8 bits in a byte, so it seems the answer should be 16 bits.

They all store information.

Small inkjet printers use "pages per minute" as their rating.

Lasers also use pages per minute, but there you need to add "first page time" because the printer needs some time to calculate the page before it starts printing it.

Wide-format inkjets, the kind you use to print vehicle wraps, are rated in square feet per hour and also linear feet per hour. A roll of media contains 164 linear feet of vinyl; how fast the machine can pull the vinyl through is the linear feet rating.

Impact printers, like daisywheels and dot matrix printers, are rated in characters per second. Dot matrix printers are still available, and are used when you need to print on a multipart form.

False.

The floppy drive is what actually does the reading. The information is then sent to the central processor unit (CPU) on the motherboard where it is translated. There is no specific part of a CPU dedicated to floppy drive input.

It's arab slang for floppy disk

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The error codes for floppy drives are 60x with 601 being the A: drive and 602 being the B: drive. Those errors most often come up when the data cable is disconnected or not fully seated to the back of the floppy drive. If the cable is installed upside down (which can happen), then the drive will spin and spin while the computer generates that 601 or 602 error code. Just disconnect the cable, turn it the other way, and the drive should then work normally.

yes, this days floppy disks rarely found but they were commonly used because they were non - volatile

Yes, although there will probably not be enough space for most higher resolution pictures.

yes

On the face of the disk drive there should be a small hole. Stick a straightened out paper clip in there and it should toggle the release mechanism.