How to Determine a Local Drive
- 1). Click on "Start" or the Windows orb logo on the taskbar at the bottom of the desktop to show the Start menu. Select "Run" from the menu to open a pop-up dialog box. Type "compmgmt.msc" in the blank field labeled "Open" to open the Windows "Computer Management" utility.
- 2). Click the "Disk Management" icon in the left pane, which will populate all of the drive letter assignments in the right pane. The "C" drive is usually the primary drive that houses the Windows operating system; subsequent letters are assigned to recovery partitions, DVD/CD drives, etc.
- 3). Right-click on the drive for which you need to make a determination, which will show a pop-up menu. Select "Properties" from the menu to open a dialog box.
- 4). Click on the "General" tab to bring it to the front of the box. Look down at the section labeled "Type" and next to that you will see the term "Local Disk" indicating that drive letter is a local drive.