Is data written on both sides of a flopy disk?
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Yes.\nThat's what the 2S means in 2SHD or (Or the DS in DSHD)\n= 2 Sided High Density, or Double Sided High Density.
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The side that you're referring to as the recording side is actually a protecive layer. Under that layer you will find a thin foil. The thin foil is acuatlly what retains the data in the format of pits and grooves. \nMore info at: \nhttp://electronics.howstuffworks.com/cd.htm
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ROM: Read Only Memory. Does exactly that; it can't write or erase data stored/burned on a disc.  \n\nThe vast volume of information, coupled by equally amazing fast speed of information retrivial quickly allowed the Compact Disc (CD) to phase out the cumbersome 5-inch floppy and the 'hard shell' 3 1/4 "square" disk drives.
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The same way it is stored on any other magnetic media-- there is a read-write head, a tiny electromagnet that creates tiny magnetized spots on the special coating of the disk surface. It writes by magnetizing the little spots and reads by sensing the magnetism in the spots it wrote on. \n\nThe written areas are ones, the areas not written are zeros. That is binary data. The whole rest of the computer, the hardware and the software, is to sort, compare and combine those patterns of 1's and 0's. Everything on the computer, including the windows, the colors, the text and the pixels of photos, the data and the programs that do things with the data, are stored in binary form on disks, either in your machine or on a server somewhere.
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Try it in a different PC. They should all work the same but some floppy drives are fussier than others, and sometimes they just don't like disks formatted in a different drive.
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Nope.  The Data is writen in tracks (like groves on those old record things) so it can be pulled off as the disk spins.  So by breaking it, you break all the sequences at once.  It is possible for a forensic unit to get some of the data off the broken CD, but in all cases there will be a heck of a lot of loss.
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The disc is either not formatted or bad or the floppy drive is bad.  The floppy disc maybe mac formatted NOT PC formatted or visa versa.  Hope this answers your question.
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Parallell ports are gone by wayside..like floppy drives have..
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No, the IDE port is where your hard drive or an optional cd&#92;dvd drive connects to.  Motherboards typically have 2 IDE interfaces and two devices can plug into each one.\n\nThe floppy drive connector port will be near the IDE connector and a little narrower in size.  That's probably the 3rd port you're seeing.  A dead giveaway will be lettering on the motherboard that says 'floppy' or 'disk'.  Be sure to align pin 1 with the stripe on the cable.
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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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the software is trying to access your floppy drive to save the settings. check where you can change that and prevent it from accessing the floppy drive. \notherwise put a floppy in the drive.\notherwise reinstall.\notherwise UNINSTALL
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The big question is--are the discs rewritable?  If they are, you should be able to overwrite them.  But if they are CD-R, they are a write-once media.   Nothing to do but use 'em for coasters.
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It would say the disk was not formatted.
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Check out the articles at the links below, one on "How Tape Recorders Work" and one on "How CDs Work."\n\nI don't think there's any reason, in principle, that a two-sided CD couldn't be made.  There are certainly two-sided DVDs.
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There is no problem in using two different disks/drives/partitions having different file systems.  The data copied from one type of disk is copied in the other disk in the system in which the disk has been formatted.
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Check the drive you are using.  If this is a floppy drive you may need to purchase a new one.  These Days most people are using thumb drives instead of floppies though so you may want to look into that...
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Compact disks are always full, because you can only write to them once and you cannot modify or delete contents later. The only exception are CD-RW disks, where RW stands for rewritable.