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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Floppy disks are an outdated form of magnetic data storage.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
Does a floppy disk hold information?
A floppy disk DRIVE can read, erase and save information on a floppy disk. The disk can't do it by himself.
What year was the diskette introduced?
I think about 57 or 58 by IBM in their 305 RAMAC computer. Its 350 disk drive had a capacity of about 5 million characters on a stack of 50 platters 24 inches in diameter it was about 4 feet tall. Worst case track to track access time was 0.8 seconds.
How can you change a floppy drive in a Toshiba laptop?
Yes, you can change the floppy drive but you'll have to take apart the whole laptop.
If you have no experience taking fixing laptop, I wouldn't recommend trying it.
But if you still want to try it, I'll post a link with Toshiba laptop disassembly guides so you can try.
What is another name for floppy?
The other name for a Floppy Disk is "Diskettes or Floppies" answer by Lloyd Gordon 1-876-471-1662
What will happen if you plug in a floppy drive backwards?
Almost all computer connections are keyed. It is difficult to connect backwards.
Connecting a data cable backward is not a concern, you can simply connect it correctly without damage.
Forcing a power connection in backwards can destroy either (or both) the HD or the power supply. Make sure the power is off before connecting power.
What is the maximum number of times a hard disk can be formatted?
You can format a hard drive continuously until the end of its life. Formatting is not any different than regular use.
And formatting is nothing but writing the hardisk sectors into value zero and its a myth that harddisl life reduces
Every harddisk has different life , you can formatt the hard disk according to the hard disk , to check this , visit the web site of the company of hard disk .
What utility reorganizes data on a disk to increase disk performance?
De Fragment
Windows 7:
1. Click on the start button click computer
2. Once your on the document screen named computer click the hard drive to De fragment.
3. Right click the icon and click properties once there click the tab called Tools
4. Click "De Fragment Now"
Windows XP:
- Click the start button, point to All Programs, point to Accessories, point to System Tools, and then click Disk Defragmenter.
- Click the volume that you want to defragment.
- Click De-fragment to begin the DeFragment.
- I Hope This Helped
How much storage does a CD-rom have?
A CD-RM used to be able to store up to 650MB of information. CD-ROMs are now able to store up to 700 MB of data or 80mins. of Audio. and hold music like mac lethal and AC/DC
Why are floppy disks not suitable for permanent storage?
Because it is easily erased because it is on magnetic tape so if it were to go near a magnet it would be erased.
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They may also degrade with time - but whether that is more serious than the computer manufacturers making the equipment obsolete within only a few years so you can't read them anyway, I'll leave others to decide!
What is the difference between USB and a floppy disk drive?
USB is a standardized bus for connecting exernal peripherals (printers, scanners, keyboards, mice, flash drives, hard drives, etc...) to a computer. A floppy disk drive is an outdated method of storing data. It uses a thin sheet of coated plastic, usually inside a firmer plastic shell, to store data.
Do people use floppy disks today?
I still use floppy disks for backing up some small files, like Word Documents, Text Files, and small "WAV file sound effects when I don't have any CDs or my flash drive is full.
I still have some old DOS games on floppy that I still play sometimes, though I have them backed up on CD, but I still play the games on Floppy if I can't find the CD.
I also maintain an Emergency Boot Disk, in case my computer crashes or gets hit by a virus and I need to go into DOS to resurrect the computer.
My School has older computers in the Social Studies computer lab that has computers with floppy disks, but I've never used them, I have a Pen drive for that! But I've seen the School IT guy use them to keep these old machines going.
My current Workplace has a few older printing presses that need to be "calibrated" using 4 unmarked floppy disks, in order, or the margins will be off and that docked from your pay. Luckily they copies of copies of copies of the original disks and they are different colors, so they always go Yellow-Blue-Black-Grey, Yellow-Blue-Black-Grey, etc.
The U.S. Government has a protocol that sensitive, classified military documents, such as Nuclear Defense Information, that was written in the 1980s, when floppy disks were the only way to distribute computer information. It would cost so much to transfer all the information to a more modern format, dispose of the old disks and write new protocol that they continue to use floppy disks to distribute this information in 2010 as they did in the 1980s.
There are a lot of older technology still in daily use that requires the use of floppy disks, like industrial equipment and cash registers. I went shopping early at a thrift store (shortly after they opened) once and I had to wait for them to boot the register from 3 floppy disks to buy some clothes, this was in 2008, too!
I remember saving some songs I had composed on an electric keyboard using a integrated floppy disk and could play them as "MIDI" files either on the keyboard or on my computer! But that was back in 2003.
Older digital cameras store their pictures on a floppy disk, also. Most of those cameras are of better quality than the modern, cheap flash-based digital cameras, film-like without the film. Though many of these have been abandoned in favor of new, flsh-based cameras.
Many Developing and Third-World countries use older, obsolete computers that have no other way to transfer and store data than floppy drives, after the developed world deemed them to be "obsolete" and were considered "junk" their still serving Latin America, Africa, Asia and the Islands as daily work-horses in homes, schools, hospitals, businesses and government offices.
As you can see floppy disks are still used, just usually as a legacy system, once all these technologies clunk out, they will be obsolete.
Explain all parts of floppy drive?
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Two advantages that main memory has over magnetic disk storage?
Faster access time(uses data bus directly and not through any controller) and no moving parts
- Improvement in the uniformity of the magnetic filmsurface to increase disk reliability.
- A significant reduction in overall surface defects to help reduce read/write errors.
- Ability to support lower fly heights (described subsequently).Better stiffness to reduce disk dynamics.
- Greater ability to withstand shock and damage
What must happen before any data can be read or written on a hard disk?
the right place on the hard disk has to be found, then the read/write head must be placed there, then the sector (a small part of the hard disk) is read or written, if it's read, the data is moved into the memory, maybe by the DMA (Direct Memory Access) Controller. Is it's a write operation, the data must first be given to the Hard Disc Controller.
No not really, it's the brain.
CPU is the Central processing Unit which receives input via input devices like keyboard, mouse , scanner, mic etc. It's main job is to process the input and send to the relevant o/p device.
It controls the flow and process of instructions, in time with a clock pulse.
It needs to handle both input and output of binary data.
What is the capacity of a floppy diskettes?
The last generation of floppy disks were 3.5 inches in diameter. They were capable of holding 1.44 megabytes of data. By comparison, a Compact Disk holds about 650 megabytes.
What color or stripe down one side of a cable marks this side of the cable as pin 1?
Usually an arrow pointing to it, or a number 1 on the connector. It's also on the side with the red wire. And most boards are keyed with a slot on the side of the female part, and extrusion on the male connector... so it can only be inserted the proper way.
How do you transfer a photo from a floppy disk drive to a computer?
If you have a CD Burner such as Nero or Roxio (Sonic solutions), start the program, choose Data CD and then then choose from the task bar "Add Data" and then select the drive where your data is, and follow the instructions.
Who invented the floppy disk in 1967?
The very first CD player was invented by James T. Rusell. James T. Russell, a senior scientist at the Pacific Northwest Laboratory, invented the technology for the compact disc in 1965. By 1985, Russell had earned 26 patents for various innovations with CD-ROM technology.
