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disk drive) A floppy disk drive. As the disk is inserted into the drive, its surface is exposed to the read-write head, which moves over the spinning disk surface to locate a specific track. Mechanical device that reads data from a disk. Many types can also write data to the disk. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Features include a built-in 160GB hard drive, dual password protection modes, DHP Dynamic hard drive partition technology, and the ability to load disc images to hard drive and rename the partition. The recent explosion of widely varying applications that rely on hard disk drives has led to the greatest diversification in hard drive design in the history of the industry. Should an internal hard drive failure occur, the bootable external hard drive can quickly replace the failed drive, or disaster recovery can be achieved by installing a bare hard drive and transferring data from the external drive to the new internal drive. |
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