In the process of improving computer technology at different times, information had to be stored on different media. The so-called hard drives dominate the modern market. Sometimes it becomes necessary to find out the brand of the hard drive connected to your computer, the nominal volume, free space, and so on.
Necessary
MS Windows computer, administrator rights for your user account, connected and properly installed disks or other removable media
Instructions
Step 1
Go to "My Computer". Click on the "Local Disk (C:)" icon and press the right mouse button. In the context menu that opens, select the "Properties" item. The properties window of the local disk will open, containing the most basic information about its state, including free space, nominal size, file system type, and others. You can also clean up the disk using MS Windows in order to increase free space.
Step 2
In the local disk properties window, click on the "Hardware" tab. You will see a list of available disk devices on your computer, including your hard drive, CD-DVD ROM drives, virtual drives, and floppy drives, with the mentioned hard drive being the first in the list. Having selected it with a mouse click, click on the "Properties" button. The physical disk properties window will open, where you can find general information about it, define the data caching policy, and also see which driver controls its operation.
