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What is a Hard Drive?
A hard drive is nothing more than a magnetised storage
area. Your Operating System is stored on your hard drive,
as well as all your software programmes, like Microsoft
Word. The hard drive is actually a few circular disks
stacked one on top of the other. A little arm moves over
the disks and writes things to these circular platters,
and reads them. When you save a file or create a new
folder, think of these circular platters being written to
and you'll have a basic idea of just what your hard drive
is.
A hard drive is given a letter of the alphabet for
convenience sake, and in most computers this will be the
letter C. That's why the hard drive is popularly know as
the C Drive. There are other drives on your computer.
These are the usual drives on modern Personal Computers:
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Floppy
Drive or A drive
There will be a
thin slot on the front of your computer. Into the gap, a
disk is inserted. This is your floppy drive, and the disk is
called a floppy disk |
| CD Rom Drive or
D DrivePress a button on the front of your computer
and a tray will probably slide out. The tray will accept a
circular disk - a CD Rom. |
DVD Drive
A DVD disk is the same size and shape as a CD, but can
hold more information. You can play a CD in a DVD Drive, but
you can't play a DVD disk in a CD Rom Drive |
CD/DVD Writer
These types of drives are for creating your
own CD's or DVD's. They are becoming statndard on a new
computer |
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A modern Hard Drive is measured in
Gigabytes. To find out how big your Hard drive is, click the
next part of this lesson.
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