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| 1. | A method of storing data on a hard drive whereby the drive can have more sectors per track near the outside of the platter (3 Words) |
| 2. | High level formatting (3 Words) |
| 4. | A process that electronically creates the hard drive tracks and ssectors and tests for bad spots on the disk surface (3 Words) |
| 5. | An ATAP calbing method that uses a narrower and more reliable cale than the 80-conductor cable (2 Words) |
| 6. | A transfer mode that uses the CPU to transfer data from the hard drive to memory (3 Words) |
| 7. | File fragments that contain data that does not belong to any file (2 Words) |
| 9. | Serial ATA (2 Words) |
| 10. | Table of partition information (3 Words) |
| 11. | The number of heads, tracks and sectors that the BIOS on the hard drive controller presents to the system BIOS and the OS (2 Words) |
| 12. | A variation of the original DOS 16-bit FAT that allows for long filenames and 32-bit disk access |
| 15. | An IDE cable tha tis narrower and has fewer pins than the parallel IDE 80-conductor cable (3 Words) |