Storage is broken down into three parts: Removable Storage, Disk
Defragmenter, and Disk Management.
Removable
Storage is any media that you
can remove from the system while it is operating including but not
limited to: CD's, Tapes, external drives. If you want to use this tool you can
categorize your cd's, make 'pools' for them. If you have a tape drive attached
to your computer this is the tool you would use if you do not have a third party
backup program installed. This tool along with the built in backup program will
allow you to catalog, erase, and test your tapes.
fairly easy to use and is of moderate quality, most third party defrag programs
will do a better job but after all it is free. As you can see from the graphic
the drive should be defraged because the files in red are fragmented.
Defragmentiing your drive will increase the performance when opening or closing
files.
Disk Management is where you find the
properties of a drive, or partition, format, change drive letters of a drive.
With this tool you can: create a partition, create a volume, change a drive
letter, delete a volume, delete a partition, or format a drive. You can also
use this program to get the properties of a particular drive. It has some low
level information that the propitiates of a drive from 'My Computer' doesn't
have such as the manufacture, the bios name of the drive, and some drive
characteristics. A very handy tool
And one last thing, as with most [using this term loosely] Microsoft products
putting the mouse pointer in some white space, and pressing F1 will bring up
help.
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