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.￿Samsung￿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.

The￿drive￿in￿your￿computer￿is￿divided￿into￿partitions.￿Each￿partition￿is￿ 2￿GB￿or￿less￿so￿that￿the￿partitions￿can￿use￿a￿16-bit￿file￿allocation￿table￿(FAT-16).￿The￿table￿enables￿the￿partitions￿to￿locate￿files￿and￿directories.

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.

Although￿Windows￿98￿can￿work￿with￿FAT-16￿or￿FAT-32￿(a￿32-bit￿file￿allocation￿table),￿there￿are￿software￿compatibility￿issues￿with￿FAT-32.￿Older￿software￿that￿you￿may￿have￿(16-bit￿software)￿requires￿FAT-16￿to￿run.

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