Hi Jacob,
Here are a couple of clips that may answer your question:
Tutorial: Anatomy of a Hard Disk Drive - Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz6kJyz4UV0
Tutorial: Anatomy of a Hard Disk Drive - Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaSeiS7pH9k&feature=relmfu
It's somewhat dry ,but may give a good idea of what's involved.
Peter E.
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From: "Jacob Smith"
Sent: Monday, 18 June, 2012 12:01 PM
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: [PCBUILD] hard-drive architecture curiosity
I fixed my hard drive problem, thank you for your help. But it got me
wondering how Windows interacts with hard-drives. What does formatting do?
How are directories stored? How is a file marked as deleted? How is a
partition written to the disk? I do know a little of the physical
architecture, I was just wondering about the data aspect.
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Blessings,
Jacob Smith
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