“When I install the hard drive in my pc would it extend the c drive or would it make a new drive?”
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If you leave existing C hard in and add it it will be different . Possibly E drive designator
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.I agree with the previous respondent. The new drive designation that will show up will depend on whether the pc is a tower unit with a DVDR/CDR drive. In my own tower PC the primary drive partition is labeled OS(C:) with a second sector labeled RECOVERY(D:) and the DVD RW Drive is labeled (E:). That is just the internals. I have a 2Tb outboard with backup software. It backs up my (C:) and (D:) drives every night between 12 AM and 1 AM. If your computer only has one internal HD, but when you check for the number of drives, it shows two, then the one with the largest space is your "C" drive and your primary drive. Your DVD/CD drive will have another letter designation as will any flash drives you may have plugged in to your USB ports. Depending on whether you are looking to add additional storage or want the new drive to mirror your primary will determine how they will need to be set up. The ideal situation would be adding one to mirror your primary "C" drive, in particular if your primary C drive is more that five years old. I recently had my primary C drive go squirrelly and not want to boot up. I had to power down and power up my tower about 4 times to get the C drive to boot properly and recover the operating system . This was about three years ago. I figure I am living on borrowed time on the original drive, but am going to purchase another drive and install it to mirror the "C" drive so that when it does fail, the mirror drive will boot and I will be able to keep operating. If you wish to do the same, the Best Buy techs would be more than happy to help you set it up in either a mirrored configuration or just as an additional storage drive.
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