Disk and Disk Drives

• The 3and half inch disk drives automatically garb the disk when you push it far enough. You hear it chunk, and the disk sinks down into the drive. If it doesn't, you are putting it in the wrong way . (The disk's silver edge goes in first, with the little round silver thing in the middle facing down.). To retrieve the disk the disk, push the button protruding from around the drive's  slot and then grab the disk when the disk kicks it out.

• A disk you can carry around the house is a floppy disk. A hidden disk that lurks deep in the bowels of the computer is a hard disk, or the hard drive.

•  Hard disk are thick little Frisbees inside the computer that can hold hundreds of times more information than  Floppy disks. They're so much quicker at readindg and writing information.(They're a great deal quieter, too,thanks goodness). Windows insists on a hard drive because its such a huge program.The programs that run under windows can be pretty huge , too.

• Because floppy disks are portable , using them is the easiest way to move information from one computer to another . You install Windows or any other program onto the computer by using floppy disks. You take floppy disk out of the box and place them into the disk drive, one at a time, when a message on the computer screens tells you to. the computer copies the information from the floppy disk onto the hard drive.

• Computer stores sells blank disks so you can store/copy your data/work onto them and put them in the safe place. Unless your new box of blank disks has the word preformatted, you can't use them straight out of the box. They must be formatted first.    

• Computer loves to copy things. When you're copying a file from one disk to another, you aren't moving the file.you are just putting a  copy of that file onto that other disk.

• Floppy disks come in many flavors,each holding different amounts of information.Different disks are designed for different sizes and types of disk drives.The disk's box describes what sort of disks are inside, but the bare disks rarely offer a clue as to their capacity.