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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Floppy disks are an outdated form of magnetic data storage.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.
768 Questions
Which type of cable connection comes in 4 pin and 6 pin?
Molex and floppy drive power connectors have 4 pins. Also PCI-E and CPU power connectors have 4-8 pins.
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Why Pen drive is costly than Hard disk?
They aren't, hard drives are always more expensive than pen drives, not the other way around. Look on amazon or play.com or other trusted shopping sites they all back up what I said. The reason why hard drives are more expensive is because of the parts that make them.
Why do the floppy disk files which have been saved to your computer load so slowly?
The primary reason that floppy disks are so slow is that the computers they were originally used on were very slow. Floppy disks have had to be kept at a slow rate so that old software on them can still be used and older computers can still read disks made by newer ones.
Data capacity measurements in disk drive?
Bytes
Kilo Bytes
Mega Bytes
Giga Bytes
Tera Bytes
a byte is really smal,
a kilo byte is a thousand bytes
a mega byte is a thousand kilo bytes
a giga byte is a thousand mega bytes
a tera byte is a thousand giga bytes
Bytes = b
Kilo Bytes = Kb
Mega Bytes = Mb
giga bytes = Gb
tera bytes = Tb
a text document might be like 10kb
a music file might be 4mb
a video might be like 30mb
a typical hard drive is like 250gb for a laptop
and 500gb for a desktop
Tera Bytes are only used in super computers or servers
although they are appearing in desktops
some of the larger hard drives are 1.5Tb or 1500 gb
some older laptop have hard drives ranging from 20gb to 80gb
a typical USB Flash drive is 2gb
a new ipod ranges from 8gb to 120gb
older ones come in sizes as small as 512Mb aka 0.5gb
Ram of a computer can range from as little as 32mb in an older computer
and as much as 8gb in some desktop computers in the price range of $800+
hope i helped, if you need a better explaination (god knows why) then email me @
davidkneiber@yahoo.com
You are welcome,
David K
Floppy disk drive not ready in DOS 1st boot device in BIOS?
The most common cause of problems accessing a floppy disk drive is the orientation of the cable leading from the drive to the motherboard. Along one edge of the cable will be a red indicator, either a solid or a dashed line running the length of the cable. At both ends this red side of the cable needs to line up with pin #1 in the connector. On the motherboard this will usually be indicated by a small number 1 printed at one end of the socket. At the drive end this will be indicated either by a number or a small arrow or triangle.
How do you know which drive is the floppy drive?
Typically, the A drive is the floppy drive; the C drive is the hard drive; and the D drive is the CD drive.
What happens when you put magnet on a disk?
Unless you scratch the disk while placing the magnet on the disk, then nothing will happen. A magnet would have to be powerful enough to extract the hemoglobin from human bloodcells to be able to effect the disk.
What are the steps for data recovery from a floppy disk?
The best way to recover data from a floppy disk is with floppy disk recovery software, such as Wondershare Data Recovery. Install and open the program. Locate your floppy drive and open it to view the files. You can then use the recovery program to recover any file from a floppy disk, even very badly corrupted ones.
Windows vista disk read error?
It sounds like you may have some corruption on the drive. I would run Check Disk to see if can find and fix any corruption that may be on the drive.
There are 3 step to repair vista disk read error
If you got vista disk read error then there is a 94% chance that your computer has registry problems. To repair vista disk read error you need to follow the steps below:
* Step 1 - Download a Perfect Optimizer,install this error repair tool.
* Step 2 - Click the Repair All Button.It will scan you PC for Free.
* Step 3 - Then click the Repair All Button again and your done! It is very easy to repair vista disk read error.
Here are the URL of Perfect Optimizer: http://www.fixerror365.com/tidpp-vista_disk_read_error-zz0005
What is the order of storage capacity for a floppy disk cd-rom hard disk dvd -rom?
Floppy Disk - 144 MB
CD-R - 700 MB
DVD-R - 4.7 GB
Hard Disk - Up to 10 TB
Why shouldn't a floppy disk be kept in the sun?
Because this will cause them to warp and be difficult or impossible to read.
How do zip superdisk and jaz disks compare to hard drives and floppy disks?
Floppy Disk and hard drives and notportableand cant hold that much data.
Where the formatted data go from Hard Disk when you format the Hard Disk?
The data is still there. When you format a disk you're just telling the hard disk controller that the disk is effectively empty and it's okay to overwrite any data that may be on it. This is why "undelete" programs work.
Where can someone purchase a 8gb pen drive?
One could find a pen drive of 8 GB or more at The Source, Staples, Walmart, Future Shop, Best Buy, Amazon or Target. A pen drive of 8 GB is now common and most electronics retailers will have them in stock.
How can you tell the difference between the hard drive data cable from the floppy drive data cable?
1. A floppy cable will almost always contain a small "twist" in it, in which a port of the wires are turned in reverse.
2. A floppy cable has 34 pins. A PATA hard drive cable has 40 pins.
One has 55GB. The other has 10GB.
Do usb flash drives have more capacity than floppy disks?
the max of a floppy is maby 250 killabites. 1000 killabites make a gigabite. jump drives can hold more than 16 gigabites
The Disk Drive On Your Laptop Won't Open When I Force It It Dosen't Read Disks Either?
Well if you force it well it stuffs it and i dont know why it doesn't read disks either so sorry. :)
