Using the Hard Drive
Your computer includes a removable IDE hard drive. The IDE hard drive can store the data and programs your computer uses. The drive plugs into a connector on the system board.
Although the storage capacity of hard drives varies according to model, any hard drive holds much more than a floppy disk does. Also, the computer reads and works with a hard drive more rapidly than with a floppy disk.
Once information is saved on a hard drive, it remains there until it is overwritten. AST hard drive heads park automatically when you turn off your computer.
The hard drive that comes with your computer has already been formatted. Do not format the hard drive. Doing so destroys all data contained on the drive. If you need to format a new drive, or want to erase all data on your existing hard drive, refer to the manual for your operating system.
Drives of more than 2 GB that ship with your computer are divided into partitions. Each partition is 2 GB or less so that the partitions can use a
Your computer recognizes each partition as a separate drive, for example, if a hard drive has two partitions, they could be recognized as drive C and drive D.
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