how is a hard drive made?
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various components.. like chips memory and such
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1-Format it,so it will be formated,2-Format it again,so it will be reformated.\n\nAbout deleting the hard drive...that's a pretty hard question.My knowledge is bad on physics.\n\nI sugest to get some lessons for begginers,or to call a technician so he could guess what you want to say.
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I'm going to presume that you mean as compared to other media. Large sized hard drives are relatively inexpensive and compact (imagine one hundred Ipods or one hundred DVDs next to a 500 gigabyte hard disk). However, they do have a limited life span (I can't give you any figures, but each time you write something to a hard disk you are hastening it's departure from this world), and they are quite sensitive to shock.
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Well,\nWant to keep your computer running smoothly? Would you like to possibly speed it up at the same time? There is a simple little utility program built into Windows that will help you do just that. It is called Disk Defragmenter.\n\nDon't be put off by the name. It sounds a bit complicated, but defragmenting your hard disk is easy. You just need a little knowledge about how a computer works to understand what disk defragmentation is and how it works.\n\nDefrag Explained\nWhen you add a file or a new program to a brand new computer, the hard disk is relatively empty so new data is written to the hard disk in one contiguous block. When you need to use that information, the computer can quickly access it because it is all in one place.\n\nAs you use your computer adding files and programs, the hard disk begins to fill up. Deleting files or removing programs creates small empty areas among the other data that the computer will reuse. After awhile, the computer is no longer saving information in large blocks. Instead, it stores information in the many little empty nooks and crannies of your hard disk. The result is that one program or file is broken up, or fragmented, into little pieces and stored in many different areas of the hard disk. The computer ingeniously keeps track of the addresses of each piece of data and puts it all together when it is needed. Yet, obviously, the more broken up the information is, the longer it takes to access the data and the slower the computer becomes.\n\nFinding the Defrag Utility\nThe solution is a simple one. Your Windows computer comes with a program that will defragment your hard disk. This process reunites all the data into large blocks and gathers all the free space on the hard disk into one block making data retrieval faster and easier for the computer. Most of you will be able to find the disk defrag program by clicking on the Start button, then choosing (All) Programs, Accessories, System Tools, and finally clicking on the Disk Defragmenter. If you have any trouble finding it, simply click on Start, then Help. Click on the Search tab and type in the word "defragment." The computer will give you a link to the defrag program.\n\nDepending on your computer and your hard disk, defragmenting the hard disk can take a bit of time. After you defrag, you will see no difference in your computer, except for a little faster speed if the disk was very fragmented. Yet, getting into the routine of defragging every now and then is a good habit to form since it keeps your computer running smoothly. Some programs, like video editing software, will crash if the disk is too fragmented.\n\nTrouble Shooting Defrag\nBefore you start the defrag process you will want to turn off any programs that you are running, including those running in the background like firewalls and anti-virus programs. If you try to defrag when these programs are running, the defrag process will constantly be stopped.\n\nIf you turn off the major programs that you have running and still find that the defrag routine is constantly interrupted, you can defrag from safe mode. Safe mode is a troubleshooting mode for Windows. In normal Windows operations, many individual programs may be automatically started along with the Windows operating system. In safe mode, only the operating system and drivers are loaded. Since no other programs are loaded, there is nothing running in the background to interfere with the defrag process.\n\nTo start your computer in safe mode, simply turn the computer off, and when it starts to reboot, press the F8 key. The exact time that you should press the F8 key varies with different Windows versions and it is always difficult to pinpoint. Sometimes pressing the F8 key and holding it down during the boot process will work. Continuously tapping the F8 key during the boot process seems to work the best for most computers. Once the safe mode screen comes up, use the arrow key to choose "Safe Mode&qu
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By opening the hard drive you would render it unusable.\n\nIn response to one of the answers below.  No, you cannot repair a bad HDD with software.  Software can cause the damanged areas to become inaccessible - virtually repairing the disk, but not physically.
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ahhh to copy a disk, you must create a disk image of the disk.. a disk image is an exact "virtual" copy..\n\n\nWhen you image is done, you burn the image to a blank cd,, and Voilà!\n\nHow make a disk image.. to make disk image comes with your disk burning software, look for this feature and this should be there.. somewhere..\n\nmake disk image..
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DJ Rick is right.  Remove the hard drive and either set the drive as a primary slave in another computer, or get a external hard drive kit for notebook hard drives (about $30) and install the drive into it.  It converts the harddrive into an external hard drive.  You connect it to a computer via USB and plug in the a/c power cord to supply power to the drive and that's all here is to it.  Should take you under 5 minutes to assemble the hard drive into an external hard drive kit.  CompUSA carries the kits.  Good luck.
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Go to My computer, right click on it and choose "manage" option. A console will open. Now choose "Disk Management" under "Storage" head. A complete graphical representatino of your hard disks (including partition informations and file system)will appear in front of you. As simple as that. Good Luck!
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If you get a USB external HD of lets say 200gig you could partition it as two separate drives.\n\nHard drive Prices\nhttp://www.nextag.com/usb-powered-external-hard-drives/search-html?nxtg=244c0a1c0525-699B541887093E76\n\nPartition Info.\nhttp://freepctech.com/pc/001/001.shtml\n\nPS If you buy a HD the manual will have info. on how too do what you are looking for too.\n\nGood Luck :)
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The data on your hard drive is stored in a quite complicated structure. The largest block of this structure is a partition. It is an area of the physical disk, separated from the remaining disk space. There can be more partitions (separated areas) on one disk. The partitions are independent from each other and they appear as individual disks under Windows. Each partition can be formated to another file system(NTFS,FAT32...) and can be used completely separately (You can have more operating systems on more partitions.).\nMostly the disk is separated into two partitions, one for the OS and one for the data, but you can create as many partitions as you want to use them separately for storing different types of data.\nThe advantage of more partitions is that if you want to format one of them, you still maintain the data on the other one. Or you can put more operating systems on your PC by creating a partition for each OS.\nManaging partitions is quite easy. There are many programs to do this (one of them is even a part of the Windows installation).
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the hard drive is a standard size and can be upgraded but not easily.  That is to say, if your carefull and done it before then its not really a big issue.  If you have never done it before then you will be tempted to use more force then needed and then things will go wrong.  Laptops use hidden tricks to keep screws limited and bezels fit into hidden grooves into one another.  Once you have done it once you will understand.  If your tempted to try it yourself, then go slow and never apply too much force.  A dental pick will come in handy for removing the little rubber pads which hide the screws.
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Computer disks store data as reversals of magnetic field in the coatings on the disk.  It's like a tape recording laid out on a flat surface.\n\nTherefore, a magnet can flip the field and erase the data.
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C) A Hard disc drive is a non-volatile data storage device.
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The hard drive platters are coated with a special coating that contains microscopic, magnetically-sensitive particles.  As the heads move across the spinning hard drive, the tiny particles are put into one of two positions -- a position indicating a "1" (ON) or a position indicating a "0" (OFF).  This all occurs extremely fast, of course.  The microscopic particles retain their position until they are overwritten by the heads, or a magnet is brought into close proximity to the drive platters.  Amazing, huh?
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If it's what I'm thinking, you can't see the drive in Disk Management.  Read this post on my technology blog and follow the DiskPart instructions.\n\nhttp://technologyexpert.blogspot.com/2005/11/adding-external-hard-drive-hard-way.html
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You mean SATA II hard drives. Well SATA II hard drives are the most common for home PCs and it is actually very common since it is one of the only types you can get for a home PC. The reason you are having trouble finding your hard drive is due to the size you want it to be. Most PCs carry only a 250 GB or 300 GB hard drive. Rarely could you buy a PC that carries anything larger. Therefore you would rarely find one for sale at that size. What you may want to do is buy two 250GB SATA II drives for a combination of 500GB. This may cost a bit more though unless you pre-order these 500 GB drives, you won't have much selection in normal electronic stores.\n\nEDIT: When you are looking for hard drives, make sure you are looking for internal hard drives, and for desktop PCs.
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Not at all.\n\nUnscrew the harddrive and pull it out, then put in the new one.