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A CD-ROM, or a CD drive, reads Compact Discs, most computer nowadays have DVD-Roms in them, meaning they can read cd's and dvd's
A hard drive, or a hard disk, is always in the computer and cannot be modified, you cannot change the disc inside the hard drive
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If you can audibly hear your laptop reading the XP disk in its CDROM but it does not respond and there is just a blank screen what do you do?
go to cmos and set cdrom to be first bootable disk. then click to start windows with cdrom support. ensure your cdrom is working ok. also ensure that your xp disk has autorun installed (some do not). Good Luck!!!!!!!!!!!
Does a system disk have to be a floppy disk?
No. A "system disk" is simply any disk which the computer can boot from and has an operating system installed on it. In most modern computer systems, the hard disk is normally the system disk. However most systems can also boot from a floppy disk, a cdrom, or even a USB thumb drive, providing of course that the media in question has the necessary system files on it. Many older systems did not have the ability to boot from the cdrom drive or USB drives. On these systems the only options were booting from the hard disk or floppy disk, so if the OS hadnt been installed to the hard disk yet (or it was broken) the only other option was the floppy disk.
Which disk holds the most data DVD or CD-Rw or Floppy or CD-r or Cdrom and Hard drive is not a choice?
CD-Rw
What does the acronym cdrom stand for?
Compact Disk Read Only Memory.
Is b drive is the hard disk drive or not?
A long time ago...... The first disk the computer was programmed to access was the Floppy Drive a 5 1/4 or a 3 1/2 single platter floppy disk. This historically was the first boot since the operating system was needed. This was before Hard disks and way before CDROM or DVDROM. Since the first disk to be accessed was given the label A and was the floppy drive the Hard Disk was given the label B.
If a motherboard has two IDE channels how many IDE devices can be accomodated?
Each IDE connector on the board supports two channels per. (Two drives) The combination of drives can vary. For instance, hard drive-cdrom, hard drive-hard drive, cdrom-cdrom, ect....ect.
How CD ROM differs from hard disk?
A CD-ROM, or a CD drive, reads Compact Discs, most computer nowadays have DVD-Roms in them, meaning they can read cd's and dvd's A hard drive, or a hard disk, is always in the computer and cannot be modified, you cannot change the disc inside the hard drive
What does CD-ROM stand for?
Compact disc - Read only memory
Is a hard disk a hardware or a software?
A computer hard disk or hard drive (fixed disk) is hardware.
What does 'HDD' stand for?
Hard Disk Drive.
What are types of disk drives?
IDE hard disk, SCSI hard disk, SATA hard disk, External hard disk, it is also differ by RPM speed for the HADD. I hope that helpes.
How many types of hard disk?
There are two types of Hard disk. 1:Sea gate disk 2:SATA Hard disk
