Table of Contents
Disks
Characteristics of Disks
How Does An OS View A Disk?
Physically Formatting A Disk Involves
DOS View of 360K Disk
DOS View of 1.44M Disk
DOS View of My Fixed Disk
Capacity of All Disks Depends on
Capacity of A Disk Is a Function of Its Physical Format
Logically Formatting A Disk puts the following onto a disk
Boot Record
File Allocation Table
Clusters
Some Examples
FAT Revisited
Disk “Root” Directory
Logically Formatting a Disk
An Example
What Might Happen If We Add a 4 Cluster File?
What Might Happen If We Add a 4 Cluster File?
Why Worry About Disk Format?
An Example of Additional
How DOS Finds the Records
“Locating” A Record
Locating A Record
Locating A Record
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Author: Glenn Thomas
Email: gthomas@kent.edu
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