………….is the process of dividing the disk into tracks and sectors.

Related MCQs

• What process prepares the magnetic surface of a disk by creating concentric circles, called tracks, around the disk? (Each track is further divided into pic-shaped sections called sectors?
• A hard disk is divided into tracks which are further subdivided into :
• Which command divides the surface of the blank disk into sectors and assign a unique address to each one
• Single party disk relying on the disk controller for finding out which disk has failed is used by :
• The tracks on a disk which can be accused without repositioning the R/W heads is
• The data on the tracks on a magnetic disk are written as
• A vertically aligned set of tracks on a disk pack is known as
• Before a disk drive can access any sector record, a computer program has to provide the record’s disk address. What information does this address specify?
• A………..sometimes called a boot sector virus, executes when a computer boots up because it resides in the boot sector of a floppy disk or the master boot record of a hard disk.
• The hard disk drive capacity is defined by its formatting pattern. We call the hard disk drive formatting pattern as :