C and D drives? (Page 2): That's the way to do it if you have need for the availability of more than one OS - quick and easy! Loren

rlv567 Loc: Baguio City, Philippines

BebuLamar wrote:

At one time I had several HD in the computer. All have different OS. I can boot to an OS by going into the bios and choose the boot drive.

That's the way to do it if you have need for the availability of more than one OS - quick and easy!

Loren - in Beautiful Baguio City

Indi Loc: L. I., NY, Palm Beach Cty when it's cold.

jerryc41 wrote:

I'm just curious. How many of you have a C drive for OS and programs and a D drive for data? Someone suggested that to me years ago, and it's been very convenient. With all my data on a separate drive, I can easily move it from one computer to another. Backing up all that data is easy, too.

Yes, my C drive is for the OS, but the D drive is typically designated for the CD/DVD optical drive in most systems.
I have 5 or more external drives where I store data and photos. Newer computers are not including optical drives these days so D would be used as an external drive.

Canisdirus

OS drive on the MB...always...nothing else on that.

markngolf Loc: Bridgewater, NJ

I have 2 500Gb NVMe drives (one for OS, the other for Scratch drive for Photoshop), a 2 TB SSD for data and a 4 TB SSD for photos. I also have 2 HDD, but I seldom use them.
Why do I have all these drives? I thought it was the best scenario when my new PC was built in 2020 and I really don't know!!! The two HDD's were transferred from my older PC.
Save your suggestions - I'm old, a bit stubborn and stuck in my PC ways.

Mark

DougS Loc: Central Arkansas

jerryc41 wrote:

When I build Big Red in 2016, I looked through the cases available. I made the mistake of selecting "Large." It is definitely large. I should have looked at the dimensions. It doesn't fit into the space in my computer desk.

The good thing about a very large case is the room to put 'stuff' in! Mine sits beside the desk where my monitor sits

BebuLamar

I should have space for 4 HDD, an optical drive and a floppy disk drive in my computer. I am missing the serial ports and parallel port.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

BebuLamar wrote:

I should have space for 4 HDD, an optical drive and a floppy disk drive in my computer. I am missing the serial ports and parallel port.

I haven't seen a parallel port on new computers....
All USB now.

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

jerryc41 wrote:

When I build Big Red in 2016, I looked through the cases available. I made the mistake of selecting "Large." It is definitely large. I should have looked at the dimensions. It doesn't fit into the space in my computer desk.

I don't use my computer desk for a similar reason. Their idea of what size to make the cubbies didn't match my computers. It is now a miscellaneous stuff desk, with the printer for my wife's computer on the top shelf. Her computer is on a standard office type desk and my computer and stacker with scanner + small printer is on a 6' folding table sitting on top of a couple of two drawer filing cabinets. It has an old "entertainment" unit with the large photo printer etc. on one side and two more tables with stackers on the other to hold paper and other miscellaneous things like our son's old gaming computer that is now a dedicated film, photo, slide scanner control computer with 35mm/120 negative/slide scanner attached.

BebuLamar

I don't build computer for my personal use because I have better deal buying already built unit. I also do not like the cases available for DIY. But.. if I ever build my own computer I would build the case as part of the desk. The case would then be more expensive than the computer but the guts of the computer need to be upgraded the case doesn't.

yssirk123 Loc: New Jersey

I use an SSD C drive for programs and the D drive (spinner) for everything else.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

yssirk123 wrote:

I use an SSD C drive for programs and the D drive (spinner) for everything else.

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

I've been doing that since I had two floppy drives attached to my Apple IIe back in the late 70s. One drive had the OS and programs, the other had the data used or generated.

Check out Von Neumann architecture.
--Bob

jerryc41 wrote:

I'm just curious. How many of you have a C drive for OS and programs and a D drive for data? Someone suggested that to me years ago, and it's been very convenient. With all my data on a separate drive, I can easily move it from one computer to another. Backing up all that data is easy, too.

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

The first time I had a computer with more than one drive I had a C: and A: drive. The A: drive was a floppy disk (5.25").

My Win10 laptop has a C: and a D: drive. In addition, I have a number of external drives. I have a multiport camera card reader that takes up 4 letters. I have a drive for my photos (P:) and a drive for local backup (B:). I have a J: drive which got that letter from a previous computer that had a lot of external drives. Network drives start at the other end, with Z:, Y:, and X:.

My MacBook has more complicated names for drives.

I used to have fun with file names also. I used to be able to get into the operating system and create file names starting with a space character or two. At the time, they were pretty secure because you couldn't access them through normal directories. But things have gotten more boring now.

You really had to get creative with file names back in the 8.3 days.

Drbobcameraguy Loc: Eaton Ohio

jerryc41 wrote:

I'm just curious. How many of you have a C drive for OS and programs and a D drive for data? Someone suggested that to me years ago, and it's been very convenient. With all my data on a separate drive, I can easily move it from one computer to another. Backing up all that data is easy, too.

I have a nvme.m2 C drive and a D HDD drive for regular stuff and an E SSD for my photos.

Laramie Loc: Tempe

Since I use mostly portable apps, my d: drive holds my photos, my portable apps, music, and a bunch of other stuff. C: only has the apps that I can find portable versions of: NX Studio, dpp Pro, Affinity Photo, and a scanner app. With mostly used stuff on d: changing computers is very easy.