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What is CHS (Cylinder/Head/Sector)?
Many computer users don’t know the hard drive components and how hard drive works. Do you know how files are stored in your hard drive? How Windows know whether the files are? How to read files from and write into hard drives? Today, I’ll introduce these shortly. Firstly, let me introduce some technical terms.
CHS
Cylinder-head-sector, also [...]
What is Partition Boot Sector?
Each partition (also sometimes called a “logical DOS volume” in the DOS/Windows world) has its own volume boot sector. This is distinct from the master boot sector (or record) that controls the entire disk, but is similar in concept. It is also sometimes called the volume boot record or partition boot sector. Each volume boot [...]
Hard drive interface introduction and comparison
Some readers reflect that they don’t know the difference among hard drives, so this article introduces the hard drive interface, including IDE, SATA and SCSI.
What is IDE/ATA Hard Drive?
Integrated Device Electronics. It is the most widely-used hard drive interface on the market. The fancy name refers to how the IDE technology “integrates” the electronics controller [...]
What is disk sector and bad sector, how to repair bad sector
What is disk sector?
In the context of computer hardware, a sector is a sub-division of a track of a magnetic hard disk or optical disc. A sector stores a fixed amount of data. The typical formatting of sectors allows holding 512 bytes (e.g. harddisks and diskettes) or 2048 bytes (e.g. optical discs) of data.
What is [...]
Basic Knowledge about Partition and Partitioning
What is a hard disk?
A hard disk/drive is one the part of your computer responsible for long-term storage of information. Unlike volatile memory (often refers to RAM), which lost its storage information once its power supply is shut off, a hard disk stores information permanently, allowing you to save program, files or any other [...]
Hard Disk and Hard Drive Physical Components
What is hard disk drive?
A hard disk drive (often shortened as hard disk, hard drive, or HDD) is a non-volatile storage device that stores digitally encoded data on rapidly rotating rigid (i.e. hard) platters with magnetic surfaces. Strictly speaking, “drive” refers to the motorized mechanical aspect that is distinct from its medium, such as a [...]
What is the difference between FAT and NTFS?
We have discussed what FAT file system is, today we’ll introduce the difference between FAT and NTFS file system. To choose right file system for a partition is very important.
NTFS vs FAT
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What is FAT file system?
Many computer users do not pay attention to partition file system, others have heard about file system, but they do not know the detailed information about File System, especially, FAT and NTFS, so in this article I’ll explain what FAT file system and I’ll talk about other file system in the future.
What is FAT File [...]