Mount hard drive - what does that mean? Easily explained

In this article, we explain what it means to mount a hard drive. To make it as understandable as possible, we use a simple example for the explanation.

Mounting the hard drive: simple explanation

Imagine that your computer is an apple tree. The root is the core of the operating system, the branches are the file paths and the apples are files, drives or hard drives.

• In order for your computer to access the files, drives, and hard drives, they must somehow be connected to the root. The connection in this case is the branch.
• Now your tree (computer) still has branches on which there are no apples. In technical jargon these are called "mount points". We can hang any apples (i.e. files, drives, hard disks or programs) on these branches.
• If you attach a hard drive to it, it is called "mounting". So you are making a file system available to the computer and thereby "mounted" it.

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