Changing Drives

Above you can see the three different types of drives, floppy drives, hard drives and network connected drives. The floppy drive is located in the front of the machine. This is where you insert your 3.5 inch disk. The hard drives are contained inside the machine. They have much more capacity than a floppy drive, and are considerably faster. The hard drives contain the local system information for the particular machine. The final type of drive is a network connected drive. These drives reside inside another computer and are accessed via the network. The network drives typically contain programs that are run by all of the machines on a network.

A directory window shows the directory structure of the current drive. The icon for the current drive is surrounded by a rectangle. You can change drives by clicking on another drive icon in the directory window. Double clicking a drive icon will display it without closing your current drive. You can also open a drive by using the Select Drive command on the disk menu. When you change to a different drive, the names of the files and directories on that drive are displayed in the directory window.