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Requires that a special program be loaded into your boot sector.
Try System Partitioner. Most operating systems allow you to partition your hard drive; you do not need additional software to partition your hard drive. TIP: Make the sizes markedly different so that it is easier to recognize which drive is which. Once you have partitioned your hard drive you effectively have two hard drives (or more if you want to). You can load one operating system on one drive and the second on the other.
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When a computer is switched on where is the operating system loaded?
it is loaded on the ram of a computer ( memory ) and it is also loaded on a partiton of your hard drive if your operating systemwas installed when you broiught it it is partitiion 1
3 different Operating Systems in use today?
1. Windows 2. Macintosh 3.Linux
What are the advantages and disadvantages of time sharing operating systems?
1.high CPU efficiency. 2.each user gets CPU time.
Examples of automated tasks using contemporary operating systems?
1. Windows XP 2. Windows 7 3. Linux 4. Snow Leopard
What was the first computer with an operating system?
The first operating systems were nothing like modern operating systems and were usually called batch monitors, because all they did was automatically ran jobs sequentially in batch mode. Computers of the time had no interactive mode of operation. Computer companies did not supply software of any kind with their machines, so it was usually up to the user (company, university, government office) to write all their own software. The first batch monitor/operating system was done in 1954 by MIT for their UNIVAC 1103. General Motors did one in 1955 for their IBM 701.The first computer to come from the manufacturer with an operating system already installed is a different question.
What is the drive letters of the computer?
Drive letters are merely an abstraction provided by the operating system to make it easier to identify specific hard drives. Indeed, the name "drive letter" is a actually a misnomer because it is the partitions upon the hard drive that are identified by those letters, not the hard drive itself. That is, a single hard drive may be divided into one or more partitions, each of which is assigned a drive letter. By default, drives a and b are reserved for floppy disk drives while the primary partition of the first hard drive is assigned drive letter C. Early versions of Windows had to be installed on partition C, however later versions could be installed on any partition. Not all operating systems use drive letters which are predominantly a feature of Windows operating systems and DOS-based systems. Linux and other Unix-based systems use a more precise identifier whereby drives are identified by labels such as hda2, sdb1 or fda0. The first two letters are an acronym that describes the type of drive, such as hd (IDE hard-disk), sd (SATA drive or, generally, a SCSI drive) and fd (floppy drive). Physical drives of the same type are then labelled a, b, c and so on, and the partitions upon those drives are numbered 0, 1, 2 and so on. Thus the label "hda2" refers to the third partition of the first IDE hard-drive.
When a computer is switched on where is the operating system loaded?
it is loaded on the ram of a computer ( memory ) and it is also loaded on a partiton of your hard drive if your operating systemwas installed when you broiught it it is partitiion 1
What does the drive label the BIOS and the operating system sometimes report different sizes for a hard drive?
BIOS is only to detect the drivers. You will see each driver in the BIOS setting. If you have 2 hard drives, you will see 2 drives in BIOS,but if BIOS Only recognize 1,that means 1 drive have a problem. Happen to me many times. Then when finally you are in windows(desktop)then you click on my computer and click on every hard drive then you will see the size of every drive. But not the 1 that was not recognized,because it will not be present.
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.
How are drives identified on a Windows-based computer?
The first two floppy drives, if present, are A: and B:. Then, the first active partition on the first hard drive is C: If there is a second physical hard drive, it would be D: ... additional partitions on the hard drives, if active, would get letters after that. The optical drive is normally lettered after the last hard drive partition. So, if you have a computer with 1 floppy, one hard drive with a single partition, and a CD Rom drive, the floppy would be A:, the hard drive would be C:, and the CDRom would be D: In more recent operating systems, however, you can re-arrange drive letters using the storage management tool; but the above is the "normal" arrangement.
What Linux distribution or other open-source operating system is best for a 1 GB hard drive?
Lots of Linux distributions, and other free operating systems, will fit on a 1 GB hard drive. The real question is what you are trying to accomplish with said operating system. For a small desktop system, look at: Puppy Linux Damn Small Linux Feather Linux QNX (free for personal use, partially open-source) KolibriOS AROS Syllable For a server, almost any server edition of Linux will work, such as: Ubuntu Server Fedora Debian (do a netinstall, and install only the parts you need) With some tweaking, you could probably also fit a standard Debian, Slackware, or Gentoo. Although I wouldn't recommend it, you could use the same method for putting Ubuntu on a 1 GB flash drive for a hard drive as well.
Which file would you view to see the number of operating systems that can be booted on a PC running Windows XP?
you should look in the main drive most likely the C drive if you got 1 hard disk. You should look for files other then widows and if you see and ISO files the those are software files like windows and other software if you got multiple partitions the it would in other drives that that are not hard disk.
Interrupts in operating systems?
Interrupts in operating systems: 1. Events signaled by the hardware, which require handling. 2. Bogus terminus for system-calls on Intel platform.
What is 1 GB of a hard drive?
It means that is the amount of space that you can have, and for a hard drive 1 GB is small. 1 GB = 1024 MB.
Is b drive is the hard disk drive or not?
A long time ago...... The first disk the computer was programmed to access was the Floppy Drive a 5 1/4 or a 3 1/2 single platter floppy disk. This historically was the first boot since the operating system was needed. This was before Hard disks and way before CDROM or DVDROM. Since the first disk to be accessed was given the label A and was the floppy drive the Hard Disk was given the label B.
Can you run a two operating system on a single screen at the same time?
Two operating systems can be ran on the some computer provided that the computer's hard drive it broken down into more then one partition or there is more then one drive on the computer. There is a setting with in Windows that gives you a change log into an alternate operating system with in a set time frame or it will automatically log into Windows. You will not be able to run two operating systems on the same partition due to the fact that only one can load at a time. Also you need have a way of separating the file structures for each operating system. Some operating systems such as ubuntu will also let you access files from either operating if the drive has the right number of partitions.
What is the difference between 32bits and 64bits operating system?
32 bit operating systems can only address 4GB of memory 64 bit operating systems can address 4 petabytes of memory(1 048 576 gigabytes).
