In other words, they want to replace the system disk with another one, and they often do it due to one of the following reasons: When you buy a new computer, an operating system is pre-installed on the hard drive and you can boot it directly.Īs long as a computer has been used, users usually need to change boot drive. It could be a hard drive, floppy disk drive, CD-ROM drive, DVD drive, and USB flash drive.Ī hard drive is the most commonly used boot drive.
A boot drive is a hardware device that contains the operating system for booting a computer.