S y s t e m D r i v e s
2/6 LS/VS550 OWNER’S HANDBOOK
The drive control software provides two icons, each with its own
drive letter. These will be found in Windows Explorer, or the drives
section in the control panel. One is for use with data cartridges, the
other is for CD-ROM and is easily identified as such with a CD
symbol. Emergency removal of the media under conditions such as
a power failure is similar in method to that of the conventional CD-
ROM drive as detailed earlier.
Hard disk drives (HDDs)
The primary hard drive
The majority of computers are supplied with one internal or
‘primary’ HDD. This will normally be designated as the
C:
drive.
The operating system will normally be installed on this drive.
The HDD can have only one active partition i.e. the bootable disk,
but larger HDDs may be supplied with more than one partition.
Caution
Caution
Apricot Computers Ltd tests many types of hard disks from a variety of
manufacturers and all of our upgrade parts are guaranteed. The quality
or compatibility of components obtained from any other source cannot
be guaranteed.
A second hard drive
Computers with an integrated drive electronics (IDE) interface can
have two HDDs connected to it. The primary drive being designated
as the Master and the new drive becoming the Slave. The Apricot