Hard Disk Drives

Wrong. those were brands. Disk drive types are

1. Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment (PATA) commonly known as IDE Integrated Drive electronics.

2. Serial ATA (SATA)

3. Small Computer System Interface (SCSI)

4. Solid State Drives (SSD)

The Barracuda 7200 by Seagate is currently the worlds largest hardrive.

Mirrored Volume

In the Applications folder is a folder called Utilities. In the Utilities folder is Disk Utility. Disk Utility will Erase / Partition / Format a hard drive.

You cannot because it's caused by the difference between systems based on 8 (which hard drive manufactures are using) and 10 (which we use everyday). It's a sort of commercial trick.

the system log record (page 698)

There are a number of manufacturers for hard drives. Some but not all are

Ibm, Seagate, Fujitsu Siemans, Western Digital, Maxtor, Samsung, Hitatchi, Toshiba.

hope this helps

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nige

cadishead computers

cylynders x heads x sectors x 512 bytes = () /1024 to convert to kilobytes =() /1024 to convert to megabytes

the question is asked from the text book however the answer is do your homework yourself as it should be

although the proper formula would have been useful i typed in a search how to calculate a hard drive capacity an was redirected to the exact question from the book thus how i know what that answer says i separated it and provided the formula above as i thought it would be useful for people who are attempting to do there homework themselves

just a thought to add to the other answer though the internet is a great resource don't let it make you lazy

Detecting and repairing disk errors You can use the Error-checking tool to check for file system errors and bad sectors on your hard disk. Open My Computer, and then select the local disk you want to check. On the File menu,Right click>> click Properties. On the Tools tab, under Error-checking, click Check Now. Under Check disk options, select the Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors check box. Notes To open My Computer, click Start, and then click My Computer. All files must be closed for this process to run. If the volume is currently in use, a message box will appear prompting you to indicate whether or not you want to reschedule the disk checking for the next time you restart your system. Then, the next time you restart your system, disk checking will run. Your volume will not be available to perform other tasks while this process is running. If your volume is formatted as NTFS, Windows automatically logs all file transactions, replaces bad clusters, and stores copies of key information for all files on the NTFS volume.

Typically a 60 GB Ultra ATA Fujitsu 4200rpm hard drive

At the moment it is 7400 rpm but these tend to cause some laptops to over heat. The best hard drive overall is the SSD. A Solid State Drive (SSD) is a hard drive of sorts. I uses a large flash memory bank that has the ability to retain all data and store and run an operating system. These drives have no moving parts which is best for laptops and they also allow for faster data retrieval and booting up. It also has no adverse heat affects.

A 1MB folder can hold approximately 204 files of 5KB each. This is calculated by converting 1MB to KB (1MB = 1024KB) and then dividing that by the file size (1024KB / 5KB = 204.8). Since you can't store a fraction of a file, you can store about 204 complete 5KB files in the 1MB folder.

A disk drive.

It depends on the size of the pictures.

If 1 picture is about 1MB, then 1TB= about one million pictures

A small picture may be 100KB, then 1TB= 10 million pictures.

Disk manufacturers make various claims which depend on the size of picture they think is typical.

I don't know that anyone deliberately tries to have a small hard drive. The first hard drive, the IBM 350, was about 4 MB. Physically, though, it weighed about a ton and had to be moved with forklifts. I believe the IBM 1311, released later, may have had a lower capacity (it was physically the size of a washing machine).

The physically smallest conventionally used hard drives are called "Microdrives." They measure 1.7 by 1.2 by 0.2 inches, and are available in capacities ranging from 170 MB to 8 GB.

Yes they are, although you can get external hard drives that are separate.

All motherboards with the 915 chipset will have BIOSes that support LBA48 addressing. LBA48 supports a theoretical maximum of 144 petabytes (about 147,500 terabytes or 160,000,000 gigabytes). In other words, any drive you could conceivably purchase within the next 30 years (assuming harddrive space increases at its current rate) will work.

No idea. A double-layer DVD can store up to 8 GB (too little), a Blu-Ray disc can store up to 50 GB (too much), a standard hard drive can currently store up to 2 TB (2000 GB, way too much).

I can't really think of any storage medium with an upper limit of 17 GB.

The main difference is transfer speed, if you for instance a new solid state drive it a sat 1 port it will be limited in speed, still fast but not the maximum performance you could get out of it,

For a conventional Hard drive you won't notice the difference though.

All sata devices are backward compatible so theres no worries there

Here's an analogy:

You're in your room working on a paper for class. You get to a point where you need to quote a periodical, but its in the car. You walk down to the car get the periodical, go back to your room and continue working on your paper. Repeat this 10 times for 10 different things.

Imagine instead you go down to the car once, take all the periodicals and put them on the desk next to you. Now when you want to quote a line all your materials are next to you. That is WAY faster. Same principle. Fetching data from disk (your hard drive) is amazingly slow. When we have to fetch data from disk its better to take a big block, push it into a faster kind of memory (some kind of RAM or register) and fetch data from those blocks instead.

1.5 GB to install. 2.0Gb for acceptable operation.

Improving on the answer above:

1.5 GB to install and 2.0 GB for acceptable operation.

(Change is in the 2.0 GB there's a difference between a Gb and a GB)

There are two ways to scan a hard drive for errors: the normal way or the old-fashioned way.

The normal way: Go to My Computer (it might be called just Computer if you've got Windows Vista or 7) and right-click the drive you want to scan. Click Properties in the drop-down menu and then go to the Tools tab. There should be a button labeled "Check Now". You can click this to open the Check Disk utility.

The old-fashioned way: Click Start, Programs or All Programs, depending on your OS, then Accessories, Command Prompt. In the command prompt, type in chkdsk c: and press enter. If you don't want to scan your C drive, replace the c with the drive letter that you want to scan. If that doesn't work, try replacing chkdsk with scandisk. If the scan finds errors, try the same thing, only add -f after the c:, for fix errors.