Mitsubishi Electric Apricot VS Owner's Handbook Manual page 20

Try not to jar or move the computer while the system is powered up as this
could cause irreparable damage to the delicate drive surface.
The primary hard drive
Your Apricot computer is supplied with one internal or 'primary'
hard disk drive (HDD) designated as the C: drive. The operating
system will normally be installed on this drive.
Data is stored on the HDD in Directories and Subdirectories, often
referred as 'folders'. More details on directories and folders will be
found in the Windows guide, as will information on Windows
utilities.
The HDD will have only one partition and this will have been made
'active' i.e. the bootable disk. Partitions are like dividing panels or
false walls in a large office, they cut the area into smaller sections,
each one then becomes almost independent.
A secondary hard drive
Caution
Apricot Computers Limited test many types of hard disks from a wide variety
of manufacturers and all of our upgrade parts are fully guaranteed. The
quality or compatibility of components supplied from any other source cannot
be guaranteed.
Computers can have two HDDs, the primary drive being designated
as the Master and the new drive becoming the Slave. The Apricot
system BIOS is capable of handling this.
Any slave drive will be supplied completely blank, with only a few
instructions. Fitting and setting up a second hard drive is not
difficult, but there can be many issues to be resolved, only one of
which is drive type. There are these issues to consider:
• Handling and fixing the delicate module
• Master to slave compatibility
Caution
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