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How long will a floppy dISk last? You
can
expect
years
of
.service from a good-quality floppy disk, given proper
are
and
handling.
Another kind
of
disk is the hard disk. Hard disks
an.store
far
greater
amounts
of
data
and
handle data far more quickly than a 5.25-inch
or
a
35
..
inch disk
an.
Hard disks with )().
and
2()..megabyte
apacities
are common.
(J..
megabyte
is
approximately
one
million
bytes
or
characters.) Hard disks are also caUed
ji:wi.
rlgtd, or
Winchester disks.
Although 5.25-inch disks
and
3.5-inch disks have a great deal in
common,
they
are different
enough
to
W2rrant
.separate sections for
the following topics:
• Disk anatomy
•
care
and
handling
of
disks
• How
disks
wttk
• Puning a disk
in
a drive
• Write
proteaing
a disk
11le
nexr.
section describes 3.5-inch disks.
If
you aren't using
3.5-inch
disks, you
an
skip to
the
following section on 5.25-inch
disks.
The
3.5-inch disk
Learning the parts
of
a disk provides a
good
background for
understanding
haw
disks work and
haw
to take care
of
them.
Figure
~1
shows the anammy
of
a 3.5·inch disk.
The
3.s.nch
disk
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