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| Hard Drive.... | can be an external or internal device. |
| HD also... | Contains several platters with data written on both the tipand the bottom of each platter. |
| Logically... | Each hard drive platter is devided into concentric circles called tracks and wedgescalle sectors. |
| Each track... | Is devided into sectorsand each of these sectors can hold512 bytes of data. |
| A hard drive... | Can be logically viewed as a series of sectors. |
| Cluster | Is a group is a group of sectors that is the smallest unit that canbe asigned to a file. |
| Know these... | Latency period, seek time, data transfer rate, and access time. |
| FDISK | A hard drive is devided into partitions using " ". The master boot program give the locatuon of each partition. |
| Active Partition | The partition that is designated to contain the OS. |
| Logical drive | Primary partirion and the extended partition can contain several logical drives. |
| If there are two hard drives in a system | The primary partition of the first hard drive contains drive C and drive D. |
| To create a file system on the logical drive... | Each logical drive must be formatted. |
| Windows 2000 | Can support upto four hard drive partitions. |
