PCchips BKi810, Manual

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Using the system : CD-ROM Drive
About the Drives
The most common combination of internal drives you will find in this system will be one
hard disk drive, a diskette drive, and either a CD-ROM or DVD drive. Other combinations
are possible, but here we will only talk about these most common drives.
Hard Disk Drive
The hard disk drive is the fixed disk, which provides the primary storage medium for your
data. Most of your programs will be stored on the hard disk drive. The programs you run
and the data you create will be stored on the hard disk and take up some of the available
space. Programs tend to take up a lot of disk space, while the files that you create will
generally take up much less.
Your hard disk drive is usually the C: drive in your system. There are a number of tools
that will allow you to keep track of disk usage and keep your hard drive running
effectively.
You can find out what is stored on this drive by double-clicking on the My Computer icon
and then double-clicking on the C: drive icon. You can find out the capacity, used space
and available space on the C: drive by right clicking on the
C: icon and then selecting
properties.
The Windows Explorer ( Start/Programs/Windows Explorer ) provides an alternative way
of seeing the contents of the C: drive. See the Windows 98 documentation for information
on how to use this program.
Hard disks can fail. While some data recovery is sometimes possible even from a faulty
drive, you can save yourself a lot of trouble if you are careful to back up your hard drive
on a regular basis.
When the system is reading from, or writing to, a hard disk drive, the hard disk indicator
light on the front panel will turn on. Never turn the power button off or move the system
while the hard disk drive is reading or writing.
Note: Most of the software provided for this computer, and most of the software
that you might purchase for installation on this computer, is only licensed for a
single installation on one hard disk drive. If you are creating more than one hard
disk drive, you may not be entitled to install all the programs that are installed on
the original hard disk drive. Check the software license before you install any
program on more than one hard disk.
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