Using The Hard Disk Drive - TRIGEM CW3S20C Operation Manual

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You can load the opeating system and application programs
from the hard disk, create and store your data there, and use
the diskette drive just for copying data to and from diskettes.
Note
If you only have one diskette drive and no hard disk, you
need to use that drive to load the operating system as well
as the application programs you are using. First load the
operating system; this copies it into the computer's memory
(RAM) so you do not need to leave the diskette in the drive.
Then you can remove that diskette and insert the program
diskette you
See your application program manual for detailed
instructions.

Using the Hard Disk Drive

You can create and revise files on a hard disk
on a diskette. The hard disk, however, provides several
advantages:
diskettes and the 40MB hard disk can store twice as much.
files on the hard disk, eliminating the inconvenience of
inserting and removing diskettes to access different files.
The added storage capacity makes it easy to move back and
forth between different programs and data files. However,
because it is so easy to add programs and files to your hard disk,
you may find yourself trying to organize hundreds of files.
MS-DOS lets you keep related files together in directories and
subdirectories so they are easier to find and use.
want to use, and load that into memory too.
as you can
just
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