Compaq 800 manual Identifying Your Storage Drives

Storage Drives

Identifying Your Storage Drives

In this section:

•Identifying Your Storage Drives

•Using the Diskette Drive

Did you know...

On select models, Compaq provides a back-up utility (or system save) that allows you to save your data and applications to a partitioned drive located on your hard disk. To determine the total hard disk size, add the size

Your diskette drive, hard drive, and CD, CD-RW, or DVD drive are designated with letters of the alphabet, as well as with icons.

To determine your drive letters, complete the following steps:

1.From the Windows desktop,

double-click the

My Computer g icon. The icons for each drive and corresponding drive letters are displayed in the My Computer window.

2.Use the icons to the right to identify your drive.

h

3 1/2 Diskette _______

Standard Diskette Drive

or SuperDisk Drive

q

Local Diskette _______

Hard Drive

¾

Drive _______

CD, DVD, or CD-RW Drive

of both the C and D drives together.

Note: The DVD, CD-RW, and SuperDisk drives are available only on select models.

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