TRIGEM CW3S20A Canadian Product, Operation Manual

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Default Drive
MS-DOS will only look at one disk drive at a time. Normally,
this is the “default” drive. You can tell which disk drive is the
current default drive by looking at the system prompt.
For example:
indicates that the A drive is currently the default drive. Unless
you specify otherwise, MS-DOS will direct any disk activity to
the A floppy disk drive.
You can easily change the default drive with an internal DOS
command. For instance, to change from the A drive (floppy
disk), to the C drive (hard disk), enter:
The computer will respond:
As you can see, the system prompt has changed to show the
new default drive letter.
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