| A | B |
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| hard drive | can be an internal or external device |
| hard drives contain... | severaql platters with data written on bolth top and bottom of each platter |
| Tracks | each hard drive platter surface is divided into concentric circles |
| each track | divided into sectors and each of theese sectors can hold 512 bytes of data |
| hd view | as a seris of seris of sectors each 512 bytes long |
| Cluster | group of sectors that is the smallest unit that can be assigned to a file |
| hard drive is divided | into partions using FDISK or similar software |
| master boot program | it looks to the begining of the active partion |
| under dos and Win9x | harddrive cna be divided into one primary partition and one extended partion |
| 2 HDs? | the primary partition of the first hd contains c drive |
| Each logical drive... | must be formatted in DOS or FORMAT command |
| win 2000 can support | up to 4 hard drive portions |
