The Hard Drive Explained

What is a Hard Drive?

A hard drive is nothing over a magnetised storage area. Your Operating Method is stored on your hard drive, as well as all of your program programmes, like Microsoft Word. The hard drive is actually a few circular disks stacked on top of the other. A tiny arm moves over the disks & writes things to these circular platters, & reads them. When you save a file or generate a new folder, think of these circular platters being written to & you’ll have a basic idea of what your hard drive is.

A hard drive is given a letter of the alphabet for convenience sake, & in most computers this will be the letter C. That is why the hard drive is popularly know as the C Drive. There’s other drives on your computer. These are the usual drives on modern Personal Computers:


Floppy Drive or A drive There will be a narrow slot on the front of your computer. In to the gap, a disk is inserted. This is your floppy drive, & the disk is called a floppy disk
CD Rom Drive or D Drive Press a button on the front of your computer & 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 & shape as a CD, but can hold more information. You can play a CD in a DVD Drive, but you cannot play a DVD disk in a CD Rom Drive

CD/DVD Writer These types of drives are for generating your own CD’s or DVD’s. They are becoming statndard on a brand spanking new computer
A contemporary Hard Drive is measure

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