Identifying Your Storage Drives - HP Compaq Presario,Presario 5000 User Manual

Your diskette drive, hard
drive, CD-ROM, CD-RW,
DVD-ROM, and Zip drives
are identified with icons
and letters of the alphabet.
Did you know ...
An external drive is in a
separate case and plugs into
the outside of your computer.
CD-ROM, CD-RW, and
DVD-ROM drives are optical
drives. If you have two optical
drives, one of them is the
primary optical drive while
the other is a secondary
optical drive.
Tip
You can also access the drives
by going into Windows
Explorer.
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Identifying Your Storage Drives

1. From the Windows desktop, double-click the
My Computer
displayed in the My Computer window. The drive letters are
found beneath the corresponding icons.
2. Use the icons below to identify your drives:
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Icon
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icon. The icons for your drives are
Description
Diskette Drive
Hard Drive
Optional External Drive
CD-ROM, CD-RW, or DVD-ROM
Optional Secondary Optical Drive
Zip Drive
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