Floppy Disk Drive Chapter 5 Release 22/10/2010powered by dj

Slide 2 of 19Chapter 5 Objectives  Explain floppy disk  Explain 3.5” and USB floppy disk drives  Install the floppy disk drive  Configure the floppy disk drive  Format a floppy disk  Create a bootable floppy disk  Troubleshoot the floppy disk drive Release 22/10/2010powered by dj

Slide 3 of 19Chapter 5 Floppy Disk  Alan Shugart created floppy disk drive  External storage device  Stores data on magnetic surface  Used for transferring data from one computer to another Release 22/10/2010powered by dj

Slide 4 of 19Chapter inch Floppy Disk  3.5 inch had a high density and could hold 720 KB of data and then density increased to hold 1.44 MB of data.  Has two holes at the bottom of the disk. One enables to identify if floppy disk has a low density or high density and other is a write protect tab Release 22/10/2010powered by dj

Slide 5 of 19Chapter 5 Write Protect Tab  Protects data from being accidentally modified or erased  Sliding the switch down makes the floppy disk read only  Sliding the switch up enables data to be read and written to the floppy disk Release 22/10/2010powered by dj

Slide 6 of 19Chapter 5 Types of FDD  3.5 Inch FDD - Floppy drive spins the floppy disk at a speed of 300 rotations per minute  USB FDD - The USB FDD is a slim type floppy disk drive (FDD) with a Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface Release 22/10/2010powered by dj

Slide 7 of 19Chapter 5 Calculation of 1.44 MB  The total unformatted size of the floppy disk can be calculated as:  = 2 (number of tracks * number of sectors * size of each sector in a track)  = 2 (80 * 18 * 512)  = 1,474,560 bytes i.e MB Release 22/10/2010powered by dj

Slide 8 of 19Chapter 5 Practical  Perform the activity mentioned in Lab no. 1 in the text book: To install a floppy disk drive. Release 22/10/2010powered by dj

Slide 9 of 19Chapter 5 Configuring the Floppy Disk Drive  Assign a drive letter A: and B: to the floppy disk drive using the data cable  Configure system BIOS to detect the installed floppy disk drive Release 22/10/2010powered by dj

Slide 10 of 19Chapter 5 Practical Activity  Ask the students to perform the steps to configure the floppy disk drive. Release 22/10/2010powered by dj

Slide 11 of 19Chapter 5 Formatting a Floppy Disk  You must format a floppy before using it.  Formatting a floppy creates tracks and sectors on the floppy disk.  Formatting wipes out all the data stored on it so copy the data to a different location before formatting. Release 22/10/2010powered by dj

Slide 12 of 19Chapter 5 Practical  Perform the activity mentioned in Lab no. 2 in the text book: To format a floppy disk through the command prompt and using windows explorer. Release 22/10/2010powered by dj

Slide 13 of 19Chapter 5 Creating a Bootable Floppy  Contains system files for starting the system  System files ntldr ntdetect.com boot.ini Release 22/10/2010powered by dj

Slide 14 of 19Chapter 5 Practical  Perform the activity mentioned in Lab no. 3 in the text book: To create a bootable floppy disk for Windows Vista. Release 22/10/2010powered by dj

Slide 15 of 19Chapter 5 Troubleshooting the Floppy Disk Drive  Floppy disk drive may have some problems which can corrupt the floppy disk  Problems that may occur if the floppy disk drive is damaged are: Can not detect the Floppy Disk Drive Unable to read and write data to the Floppy Disk Cleaning floppy drive using FDD cleaning kit Release 22/10/2010powered by dj

Slide 16 of 19Chapter 5 Summary - I  Floppy Disk is an external magnetic storage device  Write protecting the floppy disk protects the data from accidental erasure  Different types of floppy disk drives are USB 3.5 inch  The floppy disk is inserted in the floppy disk drive through the front plastic window called the faceplate  The floppy disk drive must be installed for the system to access it Release 22/10/2010powered by dj

Slide 17 of 19Chapter 5 Summary - III  Configuring the floppy disk drive assigns it the required drive letter  Formatting a floppy disk creates sectors and tracks on the floppy disk  The system requires important system file to start the system  The bootable floppy disk enables to boot a system when the system files on the hard disk cannot be accessed  Troubleshooting a floppy disk drive fixes the drive Release 22/10/2010powered by dj

Slide 18 of 19Chapter 5 Explorative Work  Refer to Internet, reference books or magazine to get the information.  Do not copy the information provided in this text book.  Consult your faculty for further guidance. Release 22/10/2010powered by dj FDD Sl.MakeExternal/InternalYear of Release

Slide 19 of 19Chapter 5 Mind Map  Draw a mind map to summarize this chapter Release 22/10/2010powered by dj