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Partially. The answer is a little complicated as what a computer does is governed by a combination of hardware, firmware, and software.
Typically the Operating System or Boot Code can be stored on a hard disk drive, so in this way the hard drive tells the computer what to do.
However, there are computers that do not have hard drives or run from removable media. In that case the operating system is not run from the hard drive.
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What does the computer hard disk or CPU do?
The computer hard disk and CPU have completely different purposes. Your question asks "or", so I will tell you that the hard disk stores data and programs. Having answered that the "or" means I must not tell you what the CPU does.
What does the computer use when hard drive is filled?
The computer doesn't "use" anything. When the hard drive is filled, no further data can be written to it, and the computer does not magically place data somewhere else. Manual intervention can tell the operating system to start storing data somewhere else, such as another hard drive, floppy disk, USB Flash drive, etc...
What are some uses of hard disk drive?
You tell me stupid.... Just joking. You can remove the hard disk if the machine holding it breaks. Example: I am using my hard drive to save stuff and then it breaks. what do i do? remove the hard disk (with professional assistance of course).
How to tell if my Xbox 360 is pro or elite?
Pros are white with a chrome disk drive cover and 20gb hard driveElites are black with a chrome disk drive cover and 120gb hard drivexD
What is available hard disk space?
go to my computer and click any drive.for eg. C drive.right click the c drive icon,choose properties.the disk space in your computer will be shown in the form of a pie chart.there is also an option called disk clean up to clean up the disk.
How can you tell how many partitions your hard drive has?
You will need to open up the disk management window on you computer. To do this open up the control panel and search for "partition" then click the link that says "Create and format hard disk partitions". From here you can view and modify all the partitions on any disk on your computer.
Difference between a computer driver and a computer drive?
A computer drive is a physical device connected to the main board. They come in the form of hard drives which is used as the main storage medium in any computer and also as DVD drives which is the main removable type of storage. A computer driver on the other hand is a group of commands to tell the operating system how to handle a specific device connected to the computer. These devices are anything that is connected to the computer either externally through the USB ports etc. or internally through the PCI ports etc. The driver tells the operating system what commands to send to the device to make it work
What is a computer's most common hard drive?
The most common "drives", or storage devices, on a computer are hard drives and optical (CD/DVD/Blu-Ray) drives. Floppies were originally quite common, but have not been included on any new computers. USB-attached drives are common, but arguably not used on a single computer very often.
If you download the mass effect on demand game does the memory of the choices like the disk version transfer to mass effect 2?
Yes. The hard drive will tell ME2 that you have ME1 saves. It doesn't matter if there's a disk or not, it all goes to your hard drive.
How do you tell if your hard-rive is stolen?
If you mean physically - the computer is missing, or there is a space inside where the hard-drive once was.
How do you tell what kind of hard drive you have?
go to start>and right click on computer, then properties, it will tell you there on the opening window.
IF The floppy drives light on when the machine is turned on?
Normally, the floppy drive light comes on so the computer can tell if there is a boot disk in there. If there is a floppy in the drive that is not a boot disk the windows will stop loading until the floppy is removed.
