Note

Before you turn off the computer, be sure to exit any application program you are using. The screen should display the Shell Start Programs Menu or the MS-DOS command prompt. Then remove your diskettes (if any), turn off the computer, and turn off any peripherals.

Using Drive Designators

MS-DOS uses letters known as drive designators to identify the disk drives in your computer. If you have one diskette drive, it is known as drive A. If you have two diskette drives, the top drive is A and the bottom drive is B.

If you have one hard disk drive, MS-DOS identifies its primary partition as drive C (even if you have only one diskette drive). If you have a second hard disk drive, MS-DOS identifies its primary partition as drive D.

If you created one or more extended partitions on your hard disk when you installed MS-DOS, the logical drives that make up the extended partition(s) are identified by drive letters. For example, if you have one hard disk (one physical drive) partitioned into three logical drives, the logical drives are C, D, and E. If you have two hard disk drives partitioned into a total of five logical drives (three on the first physical drive and two on the second), the first physical drive is divided into logical drives C, E, and F, and the second physical drive is divided into logical drives D and G, as shown here:

drive 1

 

drive 2

 

C: (primary)

D: (primary)

E:

G :

F:

 

 

Using MS-DOS with Your Equity 386SX

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