what are the drives c,d,and e on my computer for?

Question

like what are they?

Answer 1

LMAO!

Novice, huh?

Well, lemme make this very simple for you!

A drive is, usually, your floppy disc drive. The little thingy you hardly ever use, nowadays.

C and D drives will be the segmented or Partitioned Hard Disc Drive which contains your OS[Operating System] like Windows XP and the other softwares like MS Office and so on and so forth! Most of these are installed on the C segment or Partition of your Hard disc!

D is usually that segment or Partition where you can copy your C Drive essentials for a back up to act as a fail safe in case you need to format and reinstall your OS.!

E drive is usually the CD or DVD ROM or Writer!

Hope this helped!

Cheers!

Simon Templar

Sheeesh! Ain't people ever heard about segmenting the HDD?

Answer 2

in early DOS computers, they only had one or two floppy disk drives, so those were conventionally labeled A: and B:. When hard drives came out, they labeled the hard drive C:, so now on almost all computers, the C: drive is the main hard drive even if there isn't an A: or B:. D: is usually the CD or DVD drive, though this varies. After that, you computer maps each additional drive with a new letter, E: F: G: and so on.

So, C: is your main hard drive. D: is probably your CD-DVD and E: might be the USB thumb drive or something else.

Answer 3

That's a hard question to answer because it varies widely from computer to computer. I'd expect the C:\ drive to be the hard drive where you will be storing files, and the other drives to be the CD drives used to access CD content or to write to CDs. But if you aren't aware of this, and what I have said here holds, I think you need some basic computer lessons (no offence meant at all, but if you don't understand the drives you won't necessarily understand the answer).

Alternately I could be completely wrong, in which case I apologise - they could be media card readers (such as for camera cards), or one could be a second hard drive. What happens when you click on them? If they are blank, then probably the former is correct.

The final possibility is that they are hard drive partitions, in which case I can understand your question completely. This baffled me at first when I got a new computer. Usually there is one for the vital operating system files, another for documents and settings and programs, and a third mystery empty one ;-).

Answer 4

Drive C is considered the hard disk, where all of your information is stored, from your documents to program files. Drive D is the drive that you use when you put a CD or Data CD in your computer. If you have a desktop, it would be the top drive. Drive E can be the bottom drive of your desktop, or it can be a memory card or USB from your camcorder. Drive A is your floppy drive, which is used when you put a floppy disk into your computer.

Answer 5

Drive C: is your hard drive. That is where you permanently store all of your information for the operating system, videos, music, etc.

Drives D: and E: can either be 2 CD-Drives, 1 hard drive and 1 CD-Drive, OR 2 other hard drives. It really depends on what you have on your tower PC. Just look at the icons under My Computer. The CD drive icons display some sort of rectangle with a CD, while hard drives display just a rectangle shape.

Answer 6

You cirtically need one or more hard rives on a computer to work on. Sometimes, to make saving easier your drive(s) are divided into one "System Drive" and other "Logical Drives". You mostly may have one drive that is divided into 3 partitions. Usually the C: is the system drive where your operating system is installed by default. Some people use One drive only for OS stuffs, one for the User files and another for Softwares (including me). Basically, dividing your drive into 2 is recommended because creating more partitions, may use up more space by default therefore reducing space for you.

You could change the partitions but i better not say it to you because u look like a beginner and changing partitions demands some computer knowledge

Senthil

Answer 7

They are your Partitioned drives. If you have a CD/DVD drive, it will usually be drive e. The default drive for all windows and program files is drive c. drive d will be your second partition. There is a huge advantage of having a partitioned drive. You can back up some of your important files from drive c to drive d, so in the event that your computer, more specifically your drive c will need to be reformatted, you will have a back-up of your most important files in drive d. whew....there you go.

Answer 8

Your C drive is your actual hard drive for the computer, that is where all your data and Windows reside. Your D drive could be a second hard drive in the computer or a CD-ROM (if two are installed) and the E drive is either a CD-ROM, CD-RW, DVD-ROM or a DVD-RW, all depending on the hardware installed on your computer.

Answer 9

C:/ is your Hard Drive, it stores EVERYTHING on the computer (every program and application you use, it's on the harddrive)

D:/ Is your CD-ROM drive, pretty self explanitory.

E:/ Can be either your secondary CD-ROM Drive, or, if you don't have one, it can be a USB port.

The letters are just standard names for these drives and they mean pretty much nothing except to tell you what you're looking at. Hope this helped!
~Rave

Answer 10

C: This will be usually your primary drive where all your system and personal files are held.

D & E Can be a whole host of thing on your PC from secondary hard drives, CD or DVD drives or card readers or partions on Hard drives.

So without saying it is this I can only suggest open them up (double click) and see..