What you'll notice very delicately is that there's not all that much to this so-called floppy disk.

你会很细微地注意到所谓的软盘其实并没有那么多。

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If you just run your fingers again and again over this floppy disk, you are disorienting those particles or knocking them off perhaps altogether.

如果你把手指一次次地在这张软盘上滑动，你就会使这些粒子失去方向，或者可能会把它们全部敲掉。

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Much like embedded booting scenarios, a local disk (floppy or CD-ROM) isn't necessary to boot a kernel and ramdisk root filesystem.

与嵌入式引导的情况类似，本地磁盘（软盘或 CD-ROM）对于引导内核和 ramdisk 根文件系统来说都不是必需的。

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But in fact, if you just run your fingers again and again over this floppy disk you are disorienting those particles or knocking them off perhaps altogether, depending on the medium.

事实上，如果你把手指一次次的在磁盘上面滑动,这些粒子就会变的无极性,或者把它们整个搞坏，而这取决于媒介。

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What you'll notice very delicately is that there's not all that much to this so called floppy disk.

你会注意到这种称之为软盘的东西,现在已经不怎么存在了。

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Good question, so what happens when you format a floppy disk or format a hard drive?

好问题，当你格式化一个软盘,或者硬盘时会发生什么呢？

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The original Mac dumped the 5-inch disk for a 3.5-inch floppy, and the first iMac was one of the first desktops without a floppy disk drive.

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Insert a floppy disk, then open My Computer, right-click the A: icon, and select Format.

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Plus: videocassette players, portable video recorders, the now-ubiquitous Walkman and 3.5-inch floppy disk drives, launched in 1980.

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