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Book disk A system disk, also sometimes called a boot disk, is a disk that will allow you to start a computer when the operating system no... Hardware > Computer: maintenance |
Formatting - Formatting a hard drive Before trying to understand formatting, you first need to understand how a hard drive works. Many people do not distinguish low-level... Hardware > Computer: maintenance |
Partition - Partitioning a hard drive The partitioning of a hard drive occurs after the drive has been physically formatted but before it is logically formatted. It... Hardware > Computer: maintenance |
The file system Even though hard drives can be very small, they still contain millions of bits and therefore need to be organised so that information... Hardware > Computer: maintenance |
FAT16 and FAT32 The first file system to be used on a Microsoft operating system was the FAT system, which uses a file allocation table. The file... Hardware > Computer: maintenance |
The NTFS file system The NTFS file system (New Technology File System) is based on a structure called the "master file table" or MFT, which is able to hold... Hardware > Computer: maintenance |
Defragmentation When you save a file on a disk (which is initially empty), all the information concerning this file is written sequentially, one piece... Hardware > Computer: maintenance |
Overclocking A processor is normally designed to operate at a given frequency, namely the one for which its operation has been certified. It can,... Hardware > Computer: maintenance |
BIOS optimisation The BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) is a small memory chip located on the motherboard containing data that define the system... Hardware > Computer: maintenance |
Flashing the BIOS The BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) is a small memory chip located on the motherboard containing data that defines the system... Hardware > Computer: maintenance |
Hardware interrupts (IRQ) and conflicts Since the processor cannot process multiple pieces of data at the same time (it processes one piece of data a time, multitasking is... Hardware > Computer: maintenance |
