Medion PC - The Hard Drive

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The hard drive
The hard drive is the main storage medium combining large stor-
age capacity and rapid data access.
The hard drive contains the operating system of the computer,
other application programs and backup files. These programs and
files are pre-installed on your PC, so you may note that some of
the space on your hard drive is already taken.
The Windows operating system cannot use the full capacity of the
hard drive, which means that there will be a difference between
the capacity that the BIOS displays and what the operating sys-
tem displays. The operating system of the PC, further application
programs and backup files are located on the hard drive and re-
duce its total capacity.
The hard drive is addressed as drive C and D.
Note
Never switch off the computer while the busy indicator
is lit since this may result in loss of data.
Usually your hard disk is divided into more partitions, but there
can also be some minor variations.
In your first partition (Boot) you will find your operating sys-
tem, application programs and the users’ documents and
settings.
The second partition (Backup) serves for data security and con-
tains additional drivers and tools.
The backup files are also found here (D:\Recover). They allow
you to reset your computer to its original factory-set configura-
tion. (Please see page 70.)