Need Help with a software Question

[snakeman0072000]

Hi there, I dont know if I am in the right forum or not but here is my question. I am doing a paper for school and the question is: "Explain how Software and Hardware Components work together" ........ The problem is I am having trouble finding a reference that explains how they work together and my presentation has to be 3 minutes in length...........Can anyone out there help me go in the right dorection?????????????? :confused: :confused: :confused: feel free to either post here or email me..........snakeman0072000_AT_yahoo.com....thanks ppl

[Gingaa0]

They work together by electricity, electronics devices,
But I have been wondering how a file gets deleted out of computer storage ? I guess something like this, when i delete a file in a folder, that file is then transfered to trash bun, I continue to delete it and then what happens ? In memory Everthing if predefined as ie 0101010110 when file still exists is changed into 000000000 after all. is it correct ?

Steven

[pentachris]

snakeman
As a general rule, we don't answer homework questions here. The question seems broad; having not been in the class it's hard to know what your teacher/professor is looking for to even push you in the right direction.

Gingaa0
Your response has very little to do with snakeman's question. But... In a nutshell, when a file is moved to the Recycle Bin, it's just assigned a different parent folder. When a file is deleted, reference to it is removed from the hard drive's master record (not the master boot record, or MBR, but the area of the hard drive that keeps up with what files are located where - the File Allocation Tables, for example). Nothing happens to the data on the hard drive until the physical space where it sat is overwritten.

[pop pop]

snakeman0072000,

I would love to answer your question but I'm just too tired right now...maybe a bit later after some rest. The question is so broad that you couldn't even begin to answer it or descibe it adequately in three minutes. Believe me, there are volumes of information in the libraries and probably gigabytes online that will give you more than you, or your teacher ever wanted to know. Try howthingswork.com.

Steven,

puhleeze! Go and read the FAQs for this forum and learn the protocols. You'll get more out of this place and we'll be able enjoy having you around more.

[Budfred]

snakeman0072000,

Posting your email address on a forum like this is an invitation to SPAMmers to harvest your address and add you to all of their lists... Unless you really like getting SPAM I suggest that you don't do that anymore... if you really feel a need to do so, do it this way: personATisp.com

If you would like, I will edit your email address out of your post above... Post back here if you would like that done...

[tommy]

Snakeman - Hopefully the following metaphor will get you started.

Think of yourself driving an automobile. The car is the hardware. It is practically useless until you (the software) start it, press on the accelerator, use the brakes, steer it somewhere, etc. with the obejective of doing something usefull for you.

In other words, software are the instructions that cause the hardware to do what you want it to do. Hopefully, constructive.

[Winob]

snakeman
As a general rule, we don't answer homework questions here. The question seems broad; having not been in the class it's hard to know what your teacher/professor is looking for to even push you in the right direction.
I suppos he wants a book rathe then an esay.

Gingaa0
Your response has very little to do with snakeman's question. But... In a nutshell, when a file is moved to the Recycle Bin, it's just assigned a different parent folder. When a file is deleted, reference to it is removed from the hard drive's master record (not the master boot record, or MBR, but the area of the hard drive that keeps up with what files are located where - the File Allocation Tables, for example). Nothing happens to the data on the hard drive until the physical space where it sat is overwritten.
True!, and plus, ginngaa0's answer was incorrect because if so, in programing you will always get 0 output whereas the variable is not present, and waht you are expecting is >|an exception thrown from system|< :p

R&G