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It is the primary hard drive or hard drive partition, but in today's terms the C drive could be a small part, and the primary drive could have an entirely different letter. It is most likely where the Operating system is installed.
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a hard disk is a disk inside the hard drive that stores information. A computer's hard disk, or hard drive, is not a part of or mounted on the motherboard, or any of the computer's circuit boards. The drive is installed into some part of the frame within the computer. Its location is not important, because the user does not have to physically access the drive. The hard drive does, however, have a data connection to the motherboard, over which information is transferred to and from the drive.
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.
BIOS needs to be updated to recognize the hard drive correctly
The hard drive. this is usually the C drive.
Nope - a scanner is a peripheral - something which is connected to the outside of a computer. It has nothing to do with the hard-drive.
No, CMOS (Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor) is not part of the hard drive. CMOS refers to a type of technology used for memory that stores BIOS settings and system configuration information. This memory is typically found on the motherboard, not on the hard drive. The hard drive itself is a storage device for data and programs.
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Actually, the external hard drive is not located in the computer. It is an external hard drive, which means it is on the outside of the computer. It is plugged into the computer's USB port with a cord.