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Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: artbuc on November 29, 2010, 07:19:16 AM

Title: Harddrive Terminology
Post by: artbuc on November 29, 2010, 07:19:16 AM

I have a HP Pavilion a1600n computer with WinXP. I was thinking about getting an external harddrive for back-up. "My Computer" lists two harddrives: HP Pavilion C and HP Recovery D. "C" uses File System NTFS with 177GB total space and 157GB free space. "D" uses File System FAT32 with 8.83GB total space and 568MB free space.

Do I  have two different harddrives? Do I need to buy another hardrive to back-up my files? Thanks.

Title: Re: Harddrive Terminology
Post by: Allan on November 29, 2010, 07:36:40 AM

You either have two hard drives or one hard drive with two partitions. The easiest way to tell is to look in device manager under "disk drives"

Title: Re: Harddrive Terminology
Post by: artbuc on November 29, 2010, 11:57:52 AM

Quote from: Allan on November 29, 2010, 07:36:40 AM

You either have two hard drives or one hard drive with two partitions. The easiest way to tell is to look in device manager under "disk drives"

Yes, it is partitioned. When I connect the new external harddrive and back-up my files, will it automatically be partitioned? Thanks.

PS I could not find or at least did not recognize my harddrive in device manager.

Title: Re: Harddrive Terminology
Post by: BC_Programmer on November 29, 2010, 12:39:56 PM

Quote from: artbuc on November 29, 2010, 11:57:52 AM

PS I could not find or at least did not recognize my harddrive in device manager.

under "Disk Drives".