Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Hard Disk
The
But to a computer The looks like this:
010101000110100001100101
Tracks
Sector
Sector Track
Cluster
00001010000000000001101000000000000001011000000000000000000000000000000000
00000000000001000001010100010000000001000010000000000000000000000000000000
00001000000000000000001010000000010000100000001000000000000000000000000000
00000100000000000000000000000000000000010000000000111000000000000000000000
00000011110000000000000000000000100000000000000000000001000000000000000000
00000001000100100000000000000000000100000000000000000000111000000000000000
00000000000000010000100000000000000001000000000000010000000010100000000000
00000000010000000000100000000000000000001000000000000010000000010011000000
00000000000100000000000001000000011000000001000000000000101111100000000001
00100000000001000000000000000000000000000000001000000000000000001101000000
00001011111100010000000000000000000000000000000011101110100100000000000000
00000000000000000100000000000000000000000000000000001000001000000000000000
00000000000000000000000000000000000100000000000100000000000100000000000000
00000100000000010000000100000000000000100000000001000011011111100000010010
00000000000000001000000000001000000001000000000001000000000100000000000000
00110000000000000000000000000000100000000010000000000001000000100000000000
00000010100000000000010000000000000001000000000010000011000000000000000000
00000000000100010000000010000000000000000010000000000010011000000000000000
00000000000000000000001000010000000000000000000100000000001100100000000000
00000000000000000000001000000100100000000000000000000000000100000100000000
00000000000000000000000001000000001100000000000000000001000010000000001000
00000000000000000000000000000100000000100100000000000000000100100000000000
01000000000000000000000000000000010000000000001000000000000000111000000000
00000010000000000000000000000000000000000001000000000100000000001000100000
00000000000100000000000000000000000000000010001000000000000100000100000010
00000000000000001000000000000000000000000000001001000000000000000101000000
00100000000000000000010000000000000000000000000000101000000000000000100010
00000010000000000000000000100000000000000000000000000001000000000000001100
00000100000100000000000000000000100000000000000000000000000101000000000100
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00000000000000000000000000000000000000010000000000000000000000101000000000
00000000000000000010000000000000000000000001000000000000000000001010000000
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00000000000000000000000010000000000000000000000000010000000000000000101001
010101000110100001100101
To this:
The
Extended
partitions
may be
divided into
Logical
Drives
Formatting
prepares the
partition for
file storage.
The FAT is
a table of file
locations on
the HDD.
NOT
Stored
contiguously.
A file may be
distributed
among sectors,
clusters, tracks,
or even platters.
The File
Allocation Table
is a list of the
files on the hard
drive, their
The
data
stays
there
pieces and
until it is overwritten
locations.
with new data.
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