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Disk Drive Terms and Concepts

  1. Disk and Memory Working Together
  2. Disk Drive Basics
  3. Disk Drive Tracks
  4. Disk Drive Cylinders
  5. Disk Drive Sectors
  6. Disk Drive Terminology
  7. Calculating Disk Capacity
  8. How sectors are really numbered on a drive?
  9. Regular CHS Mode
  10. Extended CHS, ECHS Mode
  11. ECHS Example
  12. Zone Bit Recording
  13. Variable Sectors per Track
  14. Logical Block Addressing
  15. CHS vs. LBA
  16. Sectors and Clusters
  17. Logical vs. Physical File Size
  18. Hard Drive Interfaces
  19. HPA, Host Protected Area
  20. DCO, Device Configuration Overlay
  21. Hard Disk Data Acquisition
  22. Hard Disk Data Acquisition, cont
  23. Hard Disk Data Acquisition and BIOS
  24. Hard Disk Data Acquisition
  25. Live Acquisition
  26. Write Blockers
  27. Removable Media
  28. CD-ROMs
  29. RAID, the Multi-Disk Volumes
  30. RAID Level 0, 1, 2
  31. RAID Level 3
  32. RAID Level 4
  33. RAID Level 5
  34. Software RAID
  35. Disk Spanning
  36. RAID Forensic Analysis
  37. Damaged Data Units
  38. Damaged Data Units, cont.