Completion
Complete each sentence or statement.
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command that recovers files that were lost because of a corrupted file allocation
table.
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| | 2. | On a
disk surface, one segment of a track, which almost always contains 512 bytes of data. Sometimes a
single wedge of the disk surface is also called a ____.
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Matching
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Match
the following vocabulary words to their definitions.
a. | File allocation table (FAT)
| e. | Emergency startup disk (ESD) | b. | XCOPY command | f. | Internal DOS commands | c. | Removable drives | g. | Directory | d. | Master boot record (MBR) | h. | Formatting (a floppy disk) | | | | |
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| 3. | DOS
commands whose coding is contained within COMMAND.COM and therefore are automatically loaded into
memory when COMMAND.COM is loaded.
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| 4. | A
faster external DOS COPY program that can copy subdirectories (/S) (for example, XCOPY *.*
A:/S).
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| 5. | High-capacity drives, such as Zip or Jaz drives, that have disks
that
can be removed like floppy disks.
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| 6. | A
Windows 9x system disk that also contains some Windows 9x diagnostic and utility files.The ESD serves
Windows 9x as a rescue disk.
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| 7. | A
table on a disk that tracks the clusters used to contain a file.
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| 8. | A DOS
table that contains file information such as name, size, time and date of last modification, and the
cluster number of the files beginning location.
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| 9. | The
record written near the beginning of a floppy disk, containing information about the disk as well as
the startup operating system programs.
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| 10. | To
prepare a new floppy disk for use by placing tracks or cylinders on its surface to store information
(for example, FORMAT A:). Old disks can be reformatted, but all data on them will be
lost.
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