The size of the hard drive installed in a computer is typically measured in gigabytes, with 1GB equalling 1,000 megabytes. Larger drives may be measured in terabytes, the equivalent of 1,000 gigabytes ...

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The D: drive is usually a secondary hard drive installed on a computer, often used to hold the restore partition or to provide additional disk storage space. You may decide to clean off the contents ...

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Reader Gilbert wrote in with a great question no one has ever asked me before. He’s looking for help identifying the D: drive on his computer: Why is it there, what is it used for, and can he store ...

Disk partitioning–separating one physical hard drive into multiple independent volumes–can relieve all sorts of computer-related headaches, and thanks to the Disk Management tool included with Windows ...