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The normal computer user should always have a primary hard drive and a secondary hard drive. Hard Drive are not designed to last past roughly 7 years and more often then not, they die or become damaged within 5 years of purchase. The 2nd drive should be used as a "backup" to protect your valuable information. The 2nd drive can be "internal" or "external", but it is important to have a drive that saves your critical data/information.
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∙ 15y ago
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∙ 10y agoThere may be two hard drives in a computer or maybe one. You have to start up your computer from one basic drive. That basic hard drive is the place you start up your computer and run all your applications. There may be another hard drives which can extend the total storage of your computer. The basic functionality of the second drive is for data storage.
Recently, many laptops have two hard drives. One is SSD(solid state drive). Another one is traditional HHD. SSD is very fast, so if SSD is used as start up drive, the speed of starting up and running applications will be very fast. Since the SSD is relatively expensive, we may have a 32G or 64G SSD for startup drive. The other big HHD drive may be 1T or larger basically for storage.
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∙ 13y agoYour laptop most likely only has space for one hard drive.
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A technician needs to configure the hard drive on a computer so that there appears to be one drive for the operating system and four drives for data from different applications How can the hard drive?
USB
What are the two component of computer?
Hardware and software - without either one, there would be no computer! A simplistic answer would be the motherboard and hard-drive, though without an operating system the monitor would be blank.
What is the relationship between RAM and a Hard Drive?
RAM(random access memory) speeds up a computer's speed when it comes to performing tasks, a hard drive enables it to do hard tasks easily.
Does one harddrive case offer more protection than the others?
Generally speaking, hard drive cases do not offer more protection than another case. If you drop a hard drive while in its case, the resulting shock may displace some of the hard disk platters which will ultimately prevent the disk from being read. Additionally, a fully enclosed hard drive case is not healthy for the hard drive if the case does not provide a way for the hard drive to radiate heat. Please note that hard drives are one of the hottest (temperature wise) devices running in your computer. The friction caused by a spinning hard drive is what generates the heat in a hard drive so you must ensure that the hard drive has proper cooling available to it.
What does media test failed check cable mean?
It depends what context... I think you are talking about when a computer is starting up (pressing the power-button) That means one of two things. 1) The hard drive where your Operating System (Windows XP, Windows Vista, Linux, MAC OS X) is not present, or not properly connected to your computer. 2) If the hard drive is successfully connected, there is not an Operating System Installed on that hard drive, and thus it will not start your Operating System Either way, I think this message is preventing the startup of the Operating System.
Can you install one ATA hard drive and one SATA hard drive in the same computer?
Yes.
Why do two hard drive icons appear in My Computer if I only have one hard drive?
Each disk partition, regardless of whether there are more than one physical drives in the system, is given a drive letter.
What is the two main types of storage in a computer and can you give an example of each one?
Hard drive and Memory
Does removing a hard drive remove all internet history from computer?
Assuming there is only one hard drive on the computer, then yes.
Is it true that a computer system with a C drive and a D drive must have two physical hard drives?
No, C & D might simply be two partitions of one physical drive.
What hard drive?
A hard drive is one of the main components of a computer where all data for the computer is stored from files essential to run the computer to personal files and documents
Why do you need to partition a drive in your computer?
You do not need to in order for your computer to provide basic functionality, but it seperates your hard drive so that your computer thinks you have two or more hard drives, but in reality it has only one. You may use this to use more than one operating system on any given computer system.
How can one unformat their hard drive?
One can unformat a hard drive by using free software from webpage such as 'icare-recovery'. Alternatively, one could ask a computer specialist to unformat a hard drive.
What is another name for a hard drive?
a hard drive is hardware (stuff built into a computer). the hard drive is a disk that stores a massive amout of computer memory. my computer hold 140 gigs of memory. so in other words a hard drive is just one amazing disk.
Two OS with one internal hard drive?
DUAL PLATFORM - Yes you can have two operating system in one hard drive.
How can one increase computer storage?
There are many ways to increase the storage space on your computer. You can obtain and additional external hard drive that will give you more storage space when attached to your computer. You can also move existing files from your computer's internal hard drive to an external hard drive to clear up space on the internal hard drive. You can also compress files on your computer that you do not use often to free up space on your hard drive.
You want to put multiple hard drives in your computer but you want them to be read as one big hard drive?
There are two ways: Research Disk Striping or RAID.
