QUESTION: What does removable disk (F) (G)(H)(I) mean? Are those extra hard drives built into my tower?

Question

I just bought a new pc, my old one was atleast 15 years or more old. I'm new to this stuff. ALOT has changed!

OK. When I go to "my computer" (WIN XP) it lists 4 different 'removable' disks. When I go to properties, it says device is working properly, and shows a "pie"=0%. It makes me feel stupid, asking this, but Are these removable disks, slots for me to ADD more hard physical drives, or are they actually AVAILABLE hard drives , that I can store things on?

I don't know. I tried calling HP, hardly anyone there speaks english very well. I tried their website, but it doesn't explain exactly what they're for. I guess it's the words"removable" combined with"disks",that's throwing me a curve. Could you please help me? I don't know who else to ask. I figured, I would feel more stupid later, if I didn't ask, and found out later, that I could have been using these disks all along. Are (F)(G)(H)(I) the same thing as drive C: & D: How can I find out?

Answer 1

more than likely it is card reader (like for camera memory card) bays. you can technically expand your amount of physical memory, but those are mainly for getting info from a camera without having to use a USB cable.

there should be some slots (probably on the front, or under a door type panel on the front) that say XD and SD and etc. until you put a card in there, you wont be able to see whats on the drive of course...!

Answer 2

Removable drives include things like memory card readers that are built-in to the computer as well as devices like jump or thumb drives, which strictly speaking aren't really disk drives but devices that contain memory modules like those found in the memory cards used in digital camera. Of course, you could also have external disk drives that connect to one of the computer's USB ports.

Answer 3

Those letters are essentially the same thing as C: & D: except that they are likely to be any type of device that at some point and time you connected to your PC that may or may not still be connected.

Phones, Cameras, Camcorders, Zip drives, external hard drives, mp3 player

could be a number things....or even internal drives if you've installed some. Windows will just assign a letter to them in alphabetical order as they are encountered.

Answer 4

Typically, those are things like the card inputs on your printer where you would put a compact flash card in to pull images or files off it, an external hard drive or device which you might hook to your computer, MP3 player, digital camera, an external hard drive, or some other gadget which you've hooked up to your computer in the past.

Answer 5

With those on there you can plug in Flash Drives (pretty much small hard drives for saving large pieces of information on). You can also plug in External Hard Drives without having to create a removable drive, these are pretty much time savers.

Answer 6

hey those are just like probably ur cd or dvd drives if it was an internal drive it would be listed with the total size and the %free space listed. u can add a new internal or external hard drive to maximize ur space jus make sure u got enough space in ur tower to fit another drive, and please back up ur info before going and swapping out drives. ive got 4 drives in my pc and thats still not enough space.

Answer 7

I am not sure what model you have but chances are these are slots on the front for memory cards for digital cameras and mp3 players etc

Answer 8

Those are probably your flash card readers [4 slots]. They allocate a specific drive letter.

Plug it in with your flash card and you'll see it.

Answer 9

On my windows G is my usb drive, F is my dvd drive, H is my mp3 player it plugs into my usb port but comes up as H drive, the I drive is a memory card in my mp3 player. hope that helps

Answer 10

if you look at your pc , you probably have some media card slots
such as sdram , mini stick and others , these will show up under my computer as removable devices