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What is Advanced Format?

Advanced Format, a generic term, involves those sector formats employed for data storage on hard drives with more than 512-520 bytes per sector. Many consider Advanced Format a milestone technology in the evolutionary course of hard drive storage.

4K Advanced Format With the desperate need for delivering higher capacity points and improving Error Correction Capability, innovative and sensitive hard drive manufacturers recognized it had become urgent for them to survive competition by developing large sector sizes. During 2000 to 2009, storage media capacities increased lukewarmly by 44% every year on average. This situation, however, fell far behind what is really needed by users and drastic innovation is required in magnetic recording system technology. Hard drive manufactures, instead, lift the data surface area efficiency by 5% to 13% and increase the Error Correction Capability by altering the length of data field and using 4096-byte sectors (4K) Advanced Format

What is computer booting?
In computing, booting (booting up) is a bootstrapping process that starts operating systems when the user turns on a computer system. A boot sequence is the initial set of operations that the computer performs when power is switched on. The boot loader typically loads the main operating system for the computer. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.204.249.77 (talk) 05:58, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

What are basic and dynamic disks?
Basic disks and dynamic disks are two types of hard disk configurations in Windows. Most personal computers are configured as basic disks, which are the simplest to manage. Dynamic disks can make use of multiple hard disks within a computer to duplicate data for increased performance and reliability. A basic disk uses primary partitions, extended partitions, and logical drives to organize data. A formatted partition is also called a volume (the terms volume and partition are often used interchangeably). In this version of Windows, basic disks can have either four primary partitions or three primary and one extended partition. The extended partition can contain an unlimited number of logical drives. The partitions on a basic disk cannot share or split data with other partitions. Each partition on a basic disk is a separate entity on the disk.

Dynamic disks can contain an unlimited number of dynamic volumes that function like the primary partitions used on basic disks. The main difference between basic disks and dynamic disks is that dynamic disks are able to split or share data among two or more dynamic hard disks on a computer. For example, a single dynamic volume may actually be made up of storage space on two separate hard disks. Also, dynamic disks can duplicate data among two or more hard disks to guard against the chance of a single disk failing. This capability requires more hard disks, but improves reliability — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.204.249.77 (talk) 06:00, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

What is CHS?
Cylinder-head-sector, also known as CHS, was an early method for giving addresses to each physical block of data on a hard disk drive. In the case of floppy drives, for which the same diskette medium can be low-level formatted to different capacities, this is still true. Although CHS values no longer have a direct physical relationship to the data stored on disks, pseudo CHS values (which can be translated by disk electronics or software) are still being used by many utility programs