How can I find out what size hard drive is in this computer?

Question

Thanks, I got it.

It's a really old computer, I knew it would be really low.

Turns out it was only 6gb! LOL

Answer 1

Goto "My Computer" (On your desktop.) Find the icon labeled "something here" (C:) , where "something here" may be anything. Right click on it and choose properties.

Answer 2

The short answer is: Probably not, unless one drive has a very different (and performant) design than the other. Access times are similar no matter what the capacity of the drive. The design of the drive (which is largely independent of the capacity) can affect performance. For example, typically a 15,000-rpm drive will be faster than a 7200-rpm drive, irrespective of the capacities of the drives. Drive capacity can affect transfer rates. Higher capacities can mean higher transfer rates because more data is seen with each revolution of the disk, all else being equal. However, the main delay caused by disk drives is attributable to access time (positioning the read-write heads over a track and waiting for the disk to rotate to the correct position), so this minor advantage for high-capacity drives doesn't necessarily have a lot of impact. Unlike the purely electronic parts of computers, the speeds of disk drives have not significantly increased in years, and today disk drive access (along with network access) is the major source of slowness and delay in computers. It's possible to get faster drives, but they tend to be as much as ten times more expensive than ordinary commodity drives, often with less capacity as well.

Answer 3

If you are on a Windows computer go into the folder My Computer from your desktop or start menu. Right click on your hard drive, and click properties. If you are on a Mac right click on your hard drive on your desktop and click on get info. Both should display the amount of total drive space, drive space used, and drive space remaining

Answer 4

u can go to best buy or circut city and upgrade the hard drive or even the whole computer the have good sales going on with the desktops

Answer 5

click my computer and then right click the hard drive then click properties. youll see the remaining space and the space used.

Answer 6

just right click on the mycomputer and then select the manage option then click on disk management . here u will find the disk zise and manufature name.

Answer 7

go to my computer, single click on C: drive...then right click on it, then go to properties...and Voila....good luck....so how big is it?