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Your hard drive is not part of the OS however it is where the OS is saved. Your Hard Drive is your file storage, all of your files go there. The larger the Hard Drive the more storage room you will have. The hard drive is usually represented by the letter C.
In a Windows environment, the operating system is located on the C drive in the system folders. It can be manually installed somewhere else if desired.
The type of hard drive depends on the computer, not the operating system.
If that is what your operating system is installed on, yes.
Any windows OS you want.
The hard drive stores the Operating System. Like for example : Windows XP or Windows Vista or even Windows 7 without the hard drive your computer will not turn on.
The C drive in Windows Operating System is the partition on which the OS is installed. It also contains installation files for other programs.
The C drive in Windows Operating System is the partition on which the OS is installed. It also contains installation files for other programs.
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It's purpose is to give the Windows operating system extra space to enable it to work properly. If a computer has insufficient RAM, Windows can use free space on the hard-drive as virtual memory.
Linux is an operating system much like Microsoft Windows is. What mounting on this system mean is an additional filesystem was attached to the existing filesystem.
If your Windows operating system is not installed on drive C, you can simply format using the inbuilt formatting tool. Otherwise, you need to boot your computer using an operating system on different drive to format C.