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  2. Drive letter assignment - Wikipedia

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    DOS 5.0 and higher will ensure that it will become drive C:, so that the boot drive will either have drive A: or C:. Assign subsequent drive letters to the first primary partition upon each successive physical hard disk drive (DOS versions prior to 5.0 will probe for only two physical hard disks, whereas DOS 5.0 and higher support eight ...

  3. Scratch space - Wikipedia

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    Scratch space is space on the hard disk drive that is dedicated for storage of temporary user data, by analogy of "scratch paper." [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is unreliable by intention and has no backup . Scratch disks may occasionally be set to erase all data at regular intervals so that the disk space is left free for future use.

  4. Disk formatting - Wikipedia

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    A block, a contiguous number of bytes, is the minimum unit of storage that is read from and written to a disk by a disk driver.The earliest disk drives had fixed block sizes (e.g. the IBM 350 disk storage unit (of the late 1950s) block size was 100 six-bit characters) but starting with the 1301 [8] IBM marketed subsystems that featured variable block sizes: a particular track could have blocks ...

  5. DriveSpace - Wikipedia

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    In the most common usage scenario, the user would have one hard drive in the computer, with all the space allocated to one partition (usually as drive C:). The software would compress the entire partition contents into one large file in the root directory. On booting the system, the driver would allocate this large file as drive C:, enabling ...

  6. Disk partitioning - Wikipedia

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    (Windows drive letters do not correspond to partitions in a one-to-one fashion, so there may be more or fewer drive letters than partitions.) Microsoft Windows 2000 , XP , Vista , and Windows 7 include a ' Disk Management ' program which allows for the creation, deletion and resizing of FAT and NTFS partitions.

  7. Lance Bass says his CW pilot was axed after he came out as ...

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    Lance Bass has revealed that he was once attached to an unnamed CW sitcom that was axed due to his sexuality.. The NSYNC star revealed on a recent episode of the Politickin’ podcast that the ...

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  9. System partition and boot partition - Wikipedia

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    Before Windows 7, the system and boot partitions were, by default, the same and were given the "C:" drive letter. [7]: 971 Since Windows 7, however, Windows Setup creates, by default, a separate system partition that is not given an identifier and therefore is hidden. The boot partition is still given "C:" as its identifier.