Hardrive.

[Scottishpaladin]

Seen some threads that interested me today and well... I have one hardrive tht says OS and its 290GB with 60GB free and then another one that says DATA 290gb Free. What the hell is with the other one(the DATA one) as I have no idea :3?

[vesseblah]

Just naming, could've been primary and secondary instead. The discs are probably physically identical.

Means the OS disc boots and shows as C: in Windows, and DATA disc is for storing your midget porn collection and shows as D:

[BicycleMafioso]

It means you can fit 290GB on it before it's full?
One is full of your OS, or, Windows most likely.

It sounds like its either a partition, or two identical harddrives. Most likely a laptop if it's two identical ones.
What is it you want to know about it?

---------- Post added 2011-03-28 at 11:34 PM ----------

and DATA disc is for storing your midget porn collection and shows as D:

I thought we agreed on me preferring supreme Femdom with extra violence? And with at least two machines firing bubblegum at the porcupines :/

[Plasmon]

Sounds like you own a branded computer (or laptop) with a 600MB hard drive, and they didn't tell you but they partitioned it in half. Currently everything you have is stored on C-drive which is labelled "OS" for operating system, and the other drive (probably D) they called "Data" because that's the most common and practical use for it.

You'll get slightly better performance if you use both drives instead of filling one and then moving to the other. If I were you I'd move all your movies, music, pictures, documents, etc to your "Data" partition. If one partition gets corrupted you usually don't lose the data other partition. Drives work better when there is more free space, and they are less fragmented and easier to de-fragment.

It also helps for searching purposes. For example say you need to find a document, and you want to search all your personal files, but you don't need the search to go through windows system files or games or programs. If you've got your personal stuff on the "Data" partition it's easy, you can just search the whole data partition and it won't waste time chugging through irrelevant windows/games/programs.

Also if you ever need to format your computer to reinstall windows, (or apply a backup/mirror) you only need to backup and restore the boot drive (C:\> or "OS") and all your Data on the other partition will remain untouched.

[Scottishpaladin]

Sounds like you own a branded computer (or laptop) with a 600MB hard drive, and they didn't tell you but they partitioned it in half. Currently everything you have is stored on C-drive which is labelled "OS" for operating system, and the other drive (probably D) they called "Data" because that's the most common and practical use for it.

You'll get slightly better performance if you use both drives instead of filling one and then moving to the other. If I were you I'd move all your movies, music, pictures, documents, etc to your "Data" partition. If one partition gets corrupted you usually don't lose the data other partition. Drives work better when there is more free space, and they are less fragmented and easier to de-fragment.

It also helps for searching purposes. For example say you need to find a document, and you want to search all your personal files, but you don't need the search to go through windows system files or games or programs. If you've got your personal stuff on the "Data" partition it's easy, you can just search the whole data partition and it won't waste time chugging through irrelevant windows/games/programs.

Also if you ever need to format your computer to reinstall windows, (or apply a backup/mirror) you only need to backup and restore the boot drive (C:\> or "OS") and all your Data on the other partition will remain untouched.

Thanks man thats what I was looking for not somthing about midget porn.

[scottfred]

Hard drive is a hard disk located inside of the computer. Storage is the hard drive's responsibility. Hard Drives is main parts for all laptops and desktop computers.

[Dedweight]

Sounds like you own a branded computer (or laptop) with a 600MB hard drive, and they didn't tell you but they partitioned it in half. Currently everything you have is stored on C-drive which is labelled "OS" for operating system, and the other drive (probably D) they called "Data" because that's the most common and practical use for it.

Also if you ever need to format your computer to reinstall windows, (or apply a backup/mirror) you only need to backup and restore the boot drive (C:\> or "OS") and all your Data on the other partition will remain untouched.

600GB but yeah you're pretty much correct based on what the OP has told us, I will point out that some OEM System Builders(Dell, HP, and etc.) sometimes include a smaller partition that supplies restoration information(think Imaged backup). They aren't normally split to be that big, usually a few hundred MB or a couple GB's so it most likely just a second partition/drive setup for your personal data usage.

[nwo]

Sounds like you have a 640GB hard drive split into two equal partitions, one primary and one storage partition.