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The number of hard drives that can go in a desktop is more limited by the space you have within your computer's case and the number of ports on your motherboard rather than operating system limitations. I have heard that you can have up to 24 drives in Windows including internal and external drives. Right now, I have 5 drives attached to my desktop. To determine how many drives you can have in your desktop you should count up the number of SATA or IDE ports on your motherboard and count up the spaces in your computer case. Also, consider using external hard drives to increase your storage capacity.
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How do you add Skype to your desktop?
If you have a MAC just drag it from the hard drive onto your desktop. If you have PC open applications and drag to your desktop
You are searching for disk defragment on your desktop how do you directly go to it?
go to control panel, system maintenance, speed up computer by rearranging files on your hard drive
What sizes of hard drives are typically included in notebook computers?
Notebook computers usually have hard drive capacities ranging from 160GB to 1TB. If the notebook is going to be a desktop replacement, one should go with one that has a larger hard drive.
How should I decide between a laptop or a desktop?
They both have their ups and downs. A laptop is better for mobility, but you also lose some storage. The desktop has more storage, but you cannot move it. I would go with a laptop because you can always get an external hard drive or a USB flash drive.
How does an exterior hard drive work?
Think of an external hard drive like a normal hard drive working outside your computer, they work very much in the same way. Normally (unless you are using a SCSI hard drive), they can be connected to your computer via a Firewire or USB connection. If you have a key-drive(aka USB memory stick),they work like a miniature external hard drive in the sense that they store date in an external format; an external hard drive is just like a large key-drive. With both a keydrive and an external hard drive, you simply connect it to your computer, and access its files. When you want to access your internal hard drive, you go to MyComputer and then select the C: drive; The external hard drive is a similar process, you select it's icon (located either on the desktop or MyComputer) and then you can access its files like a normal hard drive. You can drag files out of it onto your desktop, or alternatively, drag files into it to transfer files from your computer.
How many bytes does a hard drive have?
Depending on how big your hard drive is. You can go to "My computer" on your laptop or PC and then right click and go to properties and then a screen will pop up and it will tell you how many bytes it has. :)
Where does the hard drive go?
The Hard Drive goes in the computer obviously and goes where its supposed to freakin go doyoyoyoyoy
How do I go about recovering my hard drive?
You will have to go to a professional. He or she may be able to get the files from the hard drive of you crashed computer.
How does an external hard drive work?
Think of an external hard drive like a normal hard drive working outside your computer, they work very much in the same way. Normally (unless you are using a SCSI, PATA, or eSATA hard drive), they can be connected to your computer via a Firewire or USB connection. If you have a key-drive (aka USB memory stick), they work like a miniature external hard drive in the sense that they store date in an external format; an external hard drive is just like a large key-drive. With both a key-drive and an external hard drive, you simply connect it to your computer, and access its files. When you want to access your internal hard drive, you go to My Computer and then select the C: drive; The external hard drive is a similar process, you select it's icon (located either on the desktop or My Computer) and then you can access its files like a normal hard drive. You can drag files out of it onto your desktop, or alternatively, drag files into it to transfer files from your computer.
Can external hard drives be used as internal hard drives?
Most external hard drives can be used as internal ones. Provided that the IDE, SATA, or SCSI interface of the external hard drive is the same as the desktop's system board hard drive interface. Users can remove the USB casing and proceed to plug the data and power cables into it. The external drive, just has an additional component, that's used to hook up with the USB port.
How to fix desktop appearance?
Start - > Drag what you need from here onto your desktop to create shortcuts. Then from My coputer -> C: "or your main hard drive" my programs, open the program folder that you want on desktop and drag the executable files ".exe" to desktop to create shortcuts. Once you get what you want on desktop right click on your desktop -> Arrange Icons by-> Name or w.e to make it nice and neat ^-^ Hope this helps
Where do you find out how much storage is taken up on your computer?
On desktop, click hard drive icon to select it. Go to file menu and select Get Info. (or simply "right-click" on hard drive icon and choose Get Info.) You will see "Capacity" of drive, and "Available" and "Used" space. Note: you may have several "hard drive icons" on a single physical drive. That is because the Mac treats each partition as a separate drive. To see all partitions, launch the "Disk Utility.app". On the left side, it will list all the partitions on each physical drive, whether mounted on the desktop or not. You can select any partition and click on "info" at top of the "Disk Utility" window to see space used and free space on that partition.
