Does anyone say “…in the C drive”?

I am a native speaker and work a lot with tech. I would say "on your C drive". If I was referring to a specific folder it would be "in your folder on your C drive". "In your C drive" is technically correct but not used.

It seems like data storage in general tends to use "on," e.g. "The file is stored on a flash drive" or "I have it on my hard drive." "I have it in my hard drive" sounds a bit unusual, though I'm not sure why.

When talking about physical data storage, it doesn't sound right to me to say "in." This includes things like SD cards, CDs, thumb drives, and hard drives. I would always say "on."

If you're talking about where it is stored, "on". If you're talking about where to find it while using the desktop, "in". The difference is people are thinking about "in the C drive *folder* in the File Finder" when you're clicking on stuff. Its physical location, however, is the on the actual C drive itself, not the folder that points at it.

I would in specific cases. If I’m speaking with a colleague and letting them know that I put a specific file in a specific shared drive (considering I have multiple), I might say: *I saved the document **to** the R Drive* or *I put that presentation **in** the F Drive*

It’s on a drive. It comes from media like tape, floppies, hard discs, or even optical discs. The data is literally written on the surface of the media.

normally it's \`on the C drive\`, but in could potentially work too I'm a little more concerned with web based software needing to be installed in the first place, lol, like, it's *web based*, kind of a point that it *doesn't* need to be installed... Also, C drive's the worst spot to put it if it's not large enough, cause Windows would completely break it. If you're sitting at 500gb, don't even consider it. It takes like 3 programs to fill that sucker up enough, in conjunction with the OS that at some point you're going to need to update either the OS or the program and it won't have the space to do it, so it'll force you to uninstall something, only for you to no longer have the space to reinstall it later (source: personal experience, and I wasn't even using super heavy programs for it); oh, and realistically, just a bad spot to put programs you install to your system anyway, cause they just get buried under the \`Program Files\` and \`Program Files (x86)\` folders among other things

You store things on a device. You store things in a folder. The hard drive is a device.

I've never heard anyone say "in the C drive", only on.

I would say “on” a drive, “in” a folder, “on” a computer, “on” the internet, “on” a webpage, “in” a document/file/picture. But while I would say something is “on” a drive, I would also say something is “in” storage, if I were to speak about data storage as an abstract entity.

Yes

Native speaker here, with a tech background. I use them fairly interchangeably, and have heard them used interchangeably by others. Personally, if something is saved a physical drive I possess I'm more likely to say "on" and if it's in a community cloud folder I'm more likely to say "in." I don't think that's standard though. For example, I'm more likely to say "it's installed on my C: Drive," because that's my local drive, while I would say "You can find the file in the G: Drive," because that's a cloud drive I share with my company. I don't apply this perfectly though, it varies.

It's on the drive, because drives used to be made of discs, and discs have their data physically on them.

It's almost always 'on', the only time when you'd use 'in' is when you are referring to a folder or file via the drive in question. * It's in your C: drive's temp directory.

Depends, if the data is able to stand or not. /s

On is the only correct answer. It's always been ON

Imo, if it's about installing it, I'd say "put it in the c drive", but if I was asked where a file is, I'd say "it's on my C drive" That might just be me, but it's what I say

If you're 60 or older, a native speaker would say "IN the computer" for _everything_ physical and electronic that they aren't recently viewing. Or "ON the computer" for _everything_ interactive that they currently see on any screen in their house... And _computer_ may be what they call wifi or their television or their phone internet access or the internet...

If someone used “in” your c drive, it would seem understandable but quite odd. It’s like something someone’s great grandparents might say.

Similar to how actors are "on" a tv show and "in" a movie. Files/data can be "on" a drive but "in" a folder

I'm a native English speaker and I use IN and ON interchangeably depending on context. If I'm speaking broadly about stuff being on a harddrive, like "I got a bunch of old rotoscoped animation on my harddrive." but when speaking about it being in a specific location on the harddrive, "Hey the program you're looking for is in the C drive under program files."

It's definitely 'on'. I don't know why though. :-(

More frequently you’d say on the c: drive the files are applied to the c: drive, but at the same time the files are indeed in c:.

I've always seen "on."

You install a program on an OS or an HDD, but install it in a directory. It depends on the destination.

'On' is normal for this, but if you said 'in' I wouldn't be confused or think it all that odd.

It's because you say the data is written on which likely comes from literally writing stuff on paper