Local Disc

Does' Local Disc' D mean it is a drive inside my machine or could it be my
external hard drive?

Not elsewhere on a network.


"CdLsRN" <> wrote in message
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> Does' Local Disc' D mean it is a drive inside my machine or could it be my
> external hard drive?

YES... could be either. Most likely it is "local" meaning Internal drive,
however you can label a disk anything you want so it is possible an external
drive was labeled "Local Disk"


"CdLsRN" <> wrote in message
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> Does' Local Disc' D mean it is a drive inside my machine or could it be my
> external hard drive?

A drive connected directly to the PC, including external, but may depend on
the type of connection
Why not disconnect your external & see what is then reported?

"CdLsRN" <> wrote in message
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> Does' Local Disc' D mean it is a drive inside my machine or could it be my
> external hard drive?

What is the make and model of computer? It is hard to guess right without
good info. D: might be a recovery disk on a laptop or it might be another
partition on the system drive.

"CdLsRN" <> wrote in message
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> Does' Local Disc' D mean it is a drive inside my machine or could it be my
> external hard drive?

New Dell XPS 420, 4 gb memory, 750GB hard drive(internal), 1 GB hard drive
(internal), 1 GB hard drive external. Desktop. with Windows Vista Ultimate.
"Colin Barnhorst" <> wrote in message
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> What is the make and model of computer? It is hard to guess right without
> good info. D: might be a recovery disk on a laptop or it might be another
> partition on the system drive.
>
> "CdLsRN" <> wrote in message
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>> Does' Local Disc' D mean it is a drive inside my machine or could it be
>> my external hard drive?
>

why not just unplug your external drive and see if D disappears?

What are the Drive letters you have?
C: 750 G ?
D: 1 TB ?
and your other 1 TB is drive ? E:?
do you show more than 3 drives? are you showing a small drive (around 4 to
10 GB?) - that would be your Dell recovery partition

once you figure it out, right click on your drives ion windows explorer and
rename (or set a label) to something you will relate to. I use several
external drives and I name mine WD500 (for western digital 500 GB) L750
(for Lacie 750 Gb) etc...


"CdLsRN" <> wrote in message
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> New Dell XPS 420, 4 gb memory, 750GB hard drive(internal), 1 GB hard drive
> (internal), 1 GB hard drive external. Desktop. with Windows Vista
> Ultimate.
> "Colin Barnhorst" <> wrote in message
> news:4DAFF0A3-5425-45EB-AFE0-...
>> What is the make and model of computer? It is hard to guess right
>> without good info. D: might be a recovery disk on a laptop or it might
>> be another partition on the system drive.
>>
>> "CdLsRN" <> wrote in message
>> news:...
>>> Does' Local Disc' D mean it is a drive inside my machine or could it be
>>> my external hard drive?
>>
>

CdLsRN;765039 Wrote:
> Does' Local Disc' D mean it is a drive inside my machine or could it b
> m
> external hard drive
Hello CdlsRn
Mine is a Dell Inspiron 1420. Not even 1/2 as powerful as yours. Bu
since they are both Dell, maybe it is relevent. I have 120 GB hard driv
partitioned to :
OS C ( system) drive ,and Local drive D . (See screenshot link below.
If your D drive is around 10 GB, it is a recovery drive. Don't touch i
!

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"t-4-2" <> wrote in message
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>
> CdLsRN;765039 Wrote:
>> Does' Local Disc' D mean it is a drive inside my machine or could it be
>> my
>> external hard drive?
> Hello CdlsRn,
> Mine is a Dell Inspiron 1420. Not even 1/2 as powerful as yours. But
> since they are both Dell, maybe it is relevent. I have 120 GB hard drive
> partitioned to : -
> OS C ( system) drive ,and Local drive D . (See screenshot link below.)
> If your D drive is around 10 GB, it is a recovery drive. Don't touch it
> !!
>
> 'ImageGrotto: Free Image and Screenshot Hosting'
> (http://imagegrotto.com/view-local_drive16359.JPG)
>
>
> --
> t-4-2

The way Windows enumerates volumes, D: would be a partition on the first
drive. It is probably your recovery partition. Setup enumerates partitions
on the first hard drive, then the optical drives, then the next internal
hard drive, then such things as card readers. An external drive is assigned
the next available letter. I doubt that you will ever see a computer on
which the D: partition is an external drive. It is possible, but has to be
intentionally reorganized that way by manipulating drive letters in Drive
Management. You would remember having done it.

As an example of how Setup enumerates the storage devices, on my system,
with two hard drives and two optical drives, I have one partition on the
first drive and it is C: Since there are no more partitions on the first
drive, the two optical drives are D: and E:. The second hard drive has a
single partition and is F:. It could not have become D: during Setup
because optical drives are enumerated after all the partitions on the first
drive and before any partitions on the second drive. I then have four
volumes that are the card readers, G:, H:, I:, and J:. When I plugged in my
external usb drive the first time it was assigned K:.

That is why I am confident that your D: is a partition located on the first
drive with C: and not a second internal hard drive or external drive.

"CdLsRN" <> wrote in message
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> New Dell XPS 420, 4 gb memory, 750GB hard drive(internal), 1 GB hard drive
> (internal), 1 GB hard drive external. Desktop. with Windows Vista
> Ultimate.
> "Colin Barnhorst" <> wrote in message
> news:4DAFF0A3-5425-45EB-AFE0-...
>> What is the make and model of computer? It is hard to guess right
>> without good info. D: might be a recovery disk on a laptop or it might
>> be another partition on the system drive.
>>
>> "CdLsRN" <> wrote in message
>> news:...
>>> Does' Local Disc' D mean it is a drive inside my machine or could it be
>>> my external hard drive?
>>
>