Floppy Disk Drives

MAGNETIC Storage Media are the Hard disk drivestypesthat make use ofMAGNETIC PLATTER and Read\Write Sensor (Read - Sensing Polarity, Write - Altering theinclinationi.e. sensor attracted or repelled)over the microscopic area on the Platter) for storing Digital Information in form of Binary Signals.

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You would have to search online for an external floppy disk drive or buy an old PC that has one. In the "old days" every computer had a built-in floppy drive. It would always be right in the front. About a 4" wide slot.

Bigger storage space, smaller chance of files getting corrupt or hardware getting damaged

Most floppy disks will come pre-formatted. All floppy disks need to be formatted to be usable.

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There are many disadvantages of magnetic tape.

1. Mag tape is in physical contact with the recording heads, causing friction and wear.

2. Magnetic tape is an analog medium, even when digital data is being stored.

3. Tape can stretch or break, or lose its magnetic data due to age, heat or the Earth's magnetic field.

A hard disk (HD for short) and floppy disk (FD for short) both work in the same manner, except that on can hold more information. Both are a type of magnetic media which can have information written and erased many many times. A lot better than paper when you write something and erase many times, that paper gets thin, then GAME OVER! I am including a link to better explain this from "howstuffworks". I really love that site. I could spend all day on there reading about anything! About their differences. the most common floppy disks only hold about 3.14MB of data. Where an electric HD can hold almost any amount up to several terabytes today!! That is huge. The FD uses a mechanical motor to move the read/write armature that hovers over the FD material (most comparable to cassette tape material). This is where it changes the magnetic properties of the tape material, and bingo, last night's report is saved! The HD works in a similar fashion. HD's have dense metallic disks inside that can spin at thousands of RPM's (rounds per minute). As the disks spin a similar Armature that is is surrounded by some really powerful magnets changes the magnetic properties of the dense metallic disks and Bingo, last night's report, music, and the whole operating system is spinning virtually forever. That is the basics. Hopefully that sums things up in a nutshell. Visit that site at howstuffworks to really see a more in depth look at floppy disks & hard drives!

A CD-ROM ( Compact Disc- Read Only Memory ) is an Optical Type of Device. The reason of it being optical lies in the fact that its read/write head is optical in nature ( It uses a red colored light).

Low capacity; only 1.4 MB.

Slow data transfer speed

Can not use long time,

ie. they become corrupt unexpectedly.

Most new computers do not have a floppy drive.

Zip disks can hold 100 megabytes. Today's hard drives usually hold 250 gigabytes, smaller ones are around 100 gigabytes, and large ones are upwards of 500 gigabytes. One gigabyte is 1000 megabytes, so the typical hard drive can hold 2,500 times more than a zip disk.

To answer the question in one word, no.

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Yes, a floppy disk will be affected by a magnet. Many floppy disks have magnetic components so coming into contact with permanent magnets can damage them.

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when you start the system, and as soon as the booting starts, keep pressing del key from the keyboard, then you will get the blue colored system setup, where you will find some caption for booting, there you can select floppy as the first boot device and then press F10 and y and come out of the system now at the next reboot the system will boot from the floppy.

Although they're not used any more - that would be a floppy-disc

A hard disk can be re-formatted--which means it is wiped clean before the person reloads programs.

The original Zip Disks (1994) were 100 Mb, but this was expanded to 250 Mb (1998) and then to 750 Mb (2002).

Finally, Iomega saw the handwriting on the wall (flash drives, camera memory) and put out a Zip-650, which was a standard external CD burner, and began marketing USB drives.

They also marketed the Ditto Tape Drives, Clik 40 Mb drives, and the Jaz external 2 GB drive.

The most common ones most people are familiar with were 1.44MB, but there were many sizes of "floppy disk" from about a hundred kilobytes to a couple hundred megabytes.

Nowadays, the answer is 1.44 for a double sided high density 3.5" floppy disk. This answer is quite different for other types of floppy disks. There are single sided, double sided, single density, double density, high density , 5.25", 3.5", and 8" floppy disks just to name a few of the many, MANY variations.

* low density capacity: 360 kbytes * hi density capacity : 720 kbytes * double hi density: 1.44 megabytes

There are other (rare) formats that can hold more.

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To save info; 1. right-click on file to be saved.

2. After menu opens click "Send to 3 1/2" Floppy (A:)

To Delete info; 1. Right-click "My Computer" to open menu.

2. Left-click "Explore"

3. Left-click 3 1/2" Floppy in left window.

4. On right window choose file to erase

5. Right-click on it to open menu.

6. In "Menu" left-click "Delete"

Not really. They are very failure prone, due to their complex moving parts and the conditions they are usually subjected to.

It varies. There's no universally adopted external floppy disk drive standard, so it depends on the type of drive and/or computer you have.

Modern (2008) external floppy drives commonly use USB (Universal Serial Bus). This isn't really a "floppy drive connector"; it's just an ordinary USB connector. The drive unit itself contains the electronics to make the floppy drive work with USB computers.

The original IBM-PC line (circa 1981) included an external floppy drive option, which used a 37-pin D-shell sub-miniature connector. These weren't all that common to begin with, and are extremely rare these days.

The early Macintosh computers (circa 1984) included an external floppy drive port, which used a 19-pin D-shell sub-miniature connector.

SCSI floppy disk drives exist, but were always fairly rare.

Some manufacturers introduced external floppy drives with manufacturers-specific (non-standard) connectors. Generally, you had to use the manufacturer's expansion card and floppy drive together.

Some manufacturer external floppy connectors were mechanically compatible with the 25-pin D-shell sub-miniature parallel port connector. This allowed the same computer port to be used for either printer or floppy. However, parallel and floppy are not electrically compatible, so only a computer specifically designed for this would work. Dell used it in some of their laptops (Latitude C series, for example).