ocr: Let's take a brand mew (empty) hard drive and write some files out to it. First, keep in mind that your system will always attempt to write data to a file in contiguous (consecutive) sectors starting with the first available sectors it finds. When data is first written to an empty drive, your system obviously has no trouble finding available contiguous space to write the file. Let's take a look at the result of the writing of 3 files to an empty disk... File 1 - represented by "X" each "X" represents a single 512 byte sector. File 2 - represented by "y" - each "y" represents a single 512 byte ...