Opening and Viewing Disks
The desktop is the starting point to access every disk, folder, and file on your computer. When Finder Preferences are appropriately set to display desktop icons, the desktop displays several types of local, removable, and network drives. Drives and folders are represented by icons on the desktop. Each icon graphic represents a different type of disks. Disks are devices that store information used by the computer. The disk with the Mac OS X installed on it is called the startup disk, which is typically the hard disk inside your computer. The files related to Mac OS X are stored in the System folder on your startup disk. You should not move this folder or make any changes to its contents. Additional Mac OS X related files ...
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