With reference to this article: Hard Drive Knowledge: Blocks vs. Sectors, there is a line that reads: Because there are limits to the number of blocks, or drive addresses, that an operating system...

How can I determine the Physical Sector Size (e.g. if i have an Advanced Format drive with 4,096 byte sectors rather than the legacy 512 byte sectors) in Windows 7? I know that by clicking on a fi...

Before LBA you simply had the physical mapping of a disk, which on originally on an old a IBM-PC compatible machine would look something like this the following: Cylinder Number : (10-bits) 0-1...

I know that it is possible to draw a circle in QML using the following code: Rectangle { width: 150 height: 150 anchors.horizontalCenter: parent.horizontalCenter anchors.top: parent.top color...

I was reading this: https://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~exr/lectures/opsys/10_11/lectures/os-dev.pdf And I read on page 8 the following: e9 fd ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0...

I have seen some of the scripts which are either dealing with archive or binary data or copy files (not using python default functions) use chunk or block or offset or buffer or sector. I have cre...

I have doubts regarding Disk Sector and Block . A sector is a unit normally 512 bytes or 1k, 2k, 4k ect.. depends on hardware. Filesystem block size is group of sector size. Suppose I am storing...

Are there any libraries or Windows API functions that enable writing to the sectors of a CD-R directly? I am able to read sectors from the drive using the ReadFile function provided by the Windows ...

I would like to make a sector of a circle on WP7. I tried to do this with the ellipse class and I found a lot of solution, which make a gauge or pie chart or something, but I need just the essence....

I'm trying to make a sort of pie-chart shape on a canvas element, however I can't seem to find any function that does this by itself. I only seem to be able to draw full circles and segments. Is th...