Local Disc

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Does' Local Disc' D mean it is a drive inside my machine or could it be my
external hard drive?
 
YES... could be either. Most likely it is "local" meaning Internal drive,
however you can label a disk anything you want so it is possible an external
drive was labeled "Local Disk"
 
A drive connected directly to the PC, including external, but may depend on
the type of connection
Why not disconnect your external & see what is then reported?
 
What is the make and model of computer? It is hard to guess right without
good info. D: might be a recovery disk on a laptop or it might be another
partition on the system drive.
 
New Dell XPS 420, 4 gb memory, 750GB hard drive(internal), 1 GB hard drive
(internal), 1 GB hard drive external. Desktop. with Windows Vista Ultimate.
 
why not just unplug your external drive and see if D disappears?

What are the Drive letters you have?
C: 750 G ?
D: 1 TB ?
and your other 1 TB is drive ? E:?
do you show more than 3 drives? are you showing a small drive (around 4 to
10 GB?) - that would be your Dell recovery partition

once you figure it out, right click on your drives ion windows explorer and
rename (or set a label) to something you will relate to. I use several
external drives and I name mine WD500 (for western digital 500 GB) L750
(for Lacie 750 Gb) etc...
 
The way Windows enumerates volumes, D: would be a partition on the first
drive. It is probably your recovery partition. Setup enumerates partitions
on the first hard drive, then the optical drives, then the next internal
hard drive, then such things as card readers. An external drive is assigned
the next available letter. I doubt that you will ever see a computer on
which the D: partition is an external drive. It is possible, but has to be
intentionally reorganized that way by manipulating drive letters in Drive
Management. You would remember having done it.

As an example of how Setup enumerates the storage devices, on my system,
with two hard drives and two optical drives, I have one partition on the
first drive and it is C: Since there are no more partitions on the first
drive, the two optical drives are D: and E:. The second hard drive has a
single partition and is F:. It could not have become D: during Setup
because optical drives are enumerated after all the partitions on the first
drive and before any partitions on the second drive. I then have four
volumes that are the card readers, G:, H:, I:, and J:. When I plugged in my
external usb drive the first time it was assigned K:.

That is why I am confident that your D: is a partition located on the first
drive with C: and not a second internal hard drive or external drive.
 
It turns out that the external drive (S) which was defective, turned into
(D) when I switched it for the Western Digital 1TB external hard drive. I
don't know what happened to that 8gb area. Also some of my folders and one
of my scanned pictures have just disappeared. They are not where I 'saved
as'. Maybe the computer is haunted. Ginny
 
Go to Drive Management and see if an 8GB partition is on the same drive as
C:. If it is and does not have a drive letter, assign it D:. If your
missing files are there, move them to another volume.
 
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