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Timothy
Timothy asked in Computers & InternetHardwareAdd-ons · 6 years ago

Is my E:\ drive external? It is called new volume on my computer?

Update:

Yeah, don't judge my unbelievably terrible understanding of hardware, I know quite a bit about software though :)

Update 2:

When I go onto backup it says that the drive is on the same physical disk as my system drive,

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  • ?
    Lv 5
    6 years ago

    Sounds like it might be a second partition on your main drive. A drive letter refers to a volume and a drive can have multiple volumes. It is common for computers to have a separate volume on the same drive as C for backup and restore stuff, if you want to restore factory settings.

  • Bill
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    It's impossible to know without looking at your computer. Do you have an external drive, USB stick or SD card?

  • Phukyahu
    Lv 6
    6 years ago

    Maybe. Simply being assigned the letter E doesn't necessarily mean it's an external drive. It just means that the drive assigned E was added after the drive assigned D.

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