Because of the thin media of floppy/Zip disks (Diskette), such as Zip Disks, Bernoulli Box, Syquest, Jaz Drives, Floppy Disks, and Compact Disks, they are more susceptible to physical damage, magnetic media failure and contamination failure than hard disks, and are all subject to the same risks and potential for data loss. Your Disk may produce error messages along the lines of:
"File not found"
"disk not formatted"
Invalid sector
Disk I/O error
Invalid or corrupt partition
Corrupt FAT
Clicking, or "click of death" .
Enter database password (when none was set)
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GlossaryThe Zip drive is a medium-capacity removable disk storage system, introduced by Iomega in late 1994. Originally it had a capacity of 100 MB, but later versions increased this to first 250 MB and then 750 MB.
IOMEGA REV is a removable hard drive-based disk storage system from Iomega.
The Jaz drive was a removable disk storage system, introduced by the Iomega company. It has since been discontinued.
The Bernoulli Box (or simply Bernoulli) is a high-capacity removable disk storage system that was Iomega's first popular product. It was released in 1983.
A floppy disk is a data storage device that is composed of a disk of thin, flexible ("floppy") magnetic storage medium encased in a square or rectangular plastic shell. Floppy disks are read and written by a floppy disk drive or FDD.
| Floppy disk format | Year introduced | Formatted capacity |
Marketed capacity¹ |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8-inch - IBM 23FD (read-only) | 1969 | 79.75 | ? |
| 8-inch - Memorex 650 | 1972 | 175.000 kB | 1.5 Mbits unformatted |
| 8-inch - SSSD IBM 33FD / Shugart 901 |
1973 | 250.25 | 3.1 Mbits unformatted |
| 8-inch - DSSD IBM 43FD / Shugart 850 |
1976 | 500.5 | 6.2 Mbits unformatted |
| 5¼-inch (35 track) | 1976 | 89.6 | 110 kB |
| 8-inch DSDD IBM 53FD / Shugart 850 |
1977 | 1200 | 1.2 MB |
| 5¼-inch DD | 1978 | 360 | 360 kB |
| 3½-inch HP single sided |
1982 | 280 | 264 kB |
| 3-inch | 1982 | 360 | ? |
| 3½-inch (DD at release) | 1984 | 720 | 720 kB |
| 5¼-inch QD | 1982 YE Data YD380 | 1,182,720 bytes | 1.2 MB |
| 3-inch DD | 1984 | 72 | ? |
| 3-inch Mitsumi Quick Disk |
1985 | 128 to 256 | ? |
| 2-inch | 1985[citation needed] | 720[citation needed] | ? |
| 5¼-inch Perpendicular | 1986[citation needed] | 100 MiB | ? |
| 3½-inch HD | 1987 | 1440 | 1.44 MB |
| 3½-inch ED | 1991 | 2880 | 2.88 MB |
| 3½-inch LS-120 | 1996 | 120.375 MiB | 120 MB |
| 3½-inch LS-240 | 1997 | 240.75 MiB | 240 MB |
| 3½-inch HiFD | 1998/99 | 150/200 MiB[citation needed] | 150/200 MB |
| Acronyms: DD = Double Density; QD = Quad Density; HD = High Density ED = Extended Density; LS = Laser Servo; HiFD = High capacity Floppy Disk SS = Single Sided; DS = Double Sided | |||
