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Does a floppy drive have a partition table?

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Question by budger22
Submitted on 2/24/2004
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Does a floppy drive have a partition table?


Answer by Hush
Submitted on 7/11/2004
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All storage devices require an allocation index which is stored within a partition information table. However it is the media which carries this so the floppy drive does not have the table.  However the following:

Floppy Disk
Hard Disk
CD Media
DVD Media
Zip/Jaz/LS120 Media
Smart Media
Secure Data Media
Compact Flash Media

And other such media do have a partition information table located on them.

 

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