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    A floppy disk or floppy diskette (casually referred to as a floppy, a diskette, or a disk) is a type of disk storage composed of a thin and flexible disk...
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    A floppy disk is a disk storage medium composed of a thin and flexible magnetic storage medium encased in a rectangular plastic carrier. It is read and...
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    The floppy disk is a data storage and transfer medium that was ubiquitous from the mid-1970s well into the 2000s. Besides the 3½-inch and 5¼-inch formats...
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    A floppy-disk controller (FDC) is a hardware component that directs and controls reading from and writing to a computer's floppy disk drive (FDD). It...
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  • Each generation of floppy disk drive (FDD) began with a variety of incompatible interfaces but soon evolved into one de facto standard interface for the...
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    This is a list of different floppy disk formats. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, many different logical disk formats were used, depending on the hardware...
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  • Floppy disk format and density refer to the logical and physical layout of data stored on a floppy disk. Since their introduction, there have been many...
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  • Disk formatting is the process of preparing a data storage device such as a hard disk drive, solid-state drive, floppy disk, memory card or USB flash...
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    USB flash drive (redirect from Disk on key)
    supplementary back-ups, and transferring of computer files. Compared with floppy disks or CDs, they are smaller, faster, have significantly more capacity, and...
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  • virtual machines do not emulate a floppy controller and do not support floppy disk images. VHDX (Virtual Hard Disk v2) is the successor format to VHD...
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