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Is an area of memory that looks and acts like a hard drive but because it is memory it is much faster?
RAM Drive
What terms describes creating a partition in system memory that acts like a hard drive?
RAM disk
When the computer runs out of RAM the operating system borrows space from what?
When computer runs out of RAM, it starts swapping things on your hard disk. So, your HDD acts as a virtual memory. But it is a slow process. You can use USB flash drive too as it is much faster.
When is the need for increasing the virtual memory?
virtual memory acts as additional memory to support ur ram when it runs out of the required memory needed by program. it is taken up from the hard drive u specify and when it is needed it is used. u can also change the size of virtual memory in ur PC, bt most of the time it is automatically done by the os in order to maintain the performance of the machine.
What is hard drive memory?
The H represents your hard drive. This acts like a storage facility. Things you download are stored in there! And you only have a certain amount of memory that can be used, before you can't download anymore. But you can always delete stuff from it.
How does virtual memory optimize performance of your operating system?
It allows hard disk space to be used as RAM It acts as an overflow buffer for the physically available
What is virtul memory?
Vm-ware is the software allows us to install 2 O/S in your PC. Then we can use both operating systems by minimizing the window. It allows to use parallel Operating systems. sorry if the answer is not right.
What is virtual memory-?
When dealing with computers, there are typically two types of memory. "Real" or "physical" memory is the same thing as RAM. They usually come as cards that you can install into slots on your computer's motherboard. "Virtual" memory, also known as "swap space" or (in Windows) a "paging file" is a dedicated partition or (in Windows) a file on your hard drive that acts like physical memory does. Even though both types of memory do the same thing (that is, storing things temporarily for easy access), physical memory is substantially faster than the typical hard drive. Don't consider virtual memory a replacement for RAM, but more of a complement - to catch the overflow, if you will.
Is a flash drive read only or read write?
You can write to a flash drive and read data from the flash drive. It acts the same as a miniature hard drive, just like the one on your computer. It uses flash memory, hence the name flash drive.
What happens when ram is full?
When a computers RAM is fully utilized, The hard drive acts as the RAM. This is much slower. because unlike RAM which are memory chips, the hard drive uses a disk or platter, that must spin up to access data.
How do you restore a shrunk hard disk drive to its original state in size?
As data is saved to a hard drive, the free space lessens until the there is no more space for further data - the drive is full. I assume this is what is meant by the "shrunk" hard disk drive in the question? Formatting the drive will return the drive to the original size. Note: formatting doesn't actually wipe the drive completely, the data is still on the drive. Only the links to the data is severed, so the computer acts as though the drive is blank and it can write new data to the drive.
The storage capacity of primary memory is less but computer can process huge amount of data how is it possible?
As computers have developed so have the "processing speed" of the machine and the ability of processor to use ram and hard -drive space to up/down load huge amounts of information at anyone time. The hard drives of machines are now used to store and retrive during the normal dtat processing time - The Hard drive no longer just acts as a store which can allow you to load in on demand only, it now is more active because of the use of virtual memory
