12. Disks and Storage Devices

Modern computers manage and store vast quantities of information. These days, when you can hold the digital equivalent of all the books in a library in your hand, storage is truly a technological marvel. Windows 8 supports the widest variety of storage devices of any operating system in the industry, and it can connect to, configure, and manage those devices. In this chapter, you will learn how.

The bulk of this chapter discusses how to use hard drives, because they are the most commonly used storage ...

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