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Discs and disc drives
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Floppy discs and hard discs
You store information and programs on hard or floppy discs.
Floppy discs
Your computer uses 3.5 inch floppy discs. They look like this:
A number of floppy discs are supplied with your computer, containing useful
programs (known as applications). You will also need some blank floppy discs, to
save work of your own. You can obtain these from your computer supplier. Floppy
disc storage sizes on page 33 tells you which discs to ask for. Before you use them,
you'll have to format them (see Formatting a floppy disc on page 34).
You put the discs into the floppy disc drive (see Inserting and ejecting floppy discs on
page 32). The drive can only take one disc at a time.
Hard discs
A hard disc is fitted to your computer. The amber light on the front panel of the
computer will come on when the hard disc is active.
A hard disc can hold a lot more information than a floppy disc, and the computer can
find information on it a lot faster.
The hard disc icon is on the lefthand side of the icon bar.
his chapter tells you how to use and take care of your
discs and disc drives, and how to format and make backup copies of discs.
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