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.



-- 

 Blessings,

Jacob Smith



 



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