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Article: Dear Nerd: ; How many drives in a hard drive?

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October 17, 1999
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Dear Nerd: I have one hard drive on my PC, but there are three drives listed under "My Computer." One is C, which is where I keep everything. The others are D and E. E is holding 500 MB of disc space that I could use, but I don't know how to get it back onto C. I have no need for the additional two drives, and would prefer to only have one. How can I eliminate the two extra drives? - Todd, via e-mail

Dear Todd: The hard drive on your computer is partitioned into several logical drives. OK, what in the heck does this mean some people are asking? Before a hard drive can be used by an operating system (Windows, for example) it must be set up in a way that the operating system likes it. Every ...

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