Using Disks and Discs
Working with hard drives, CDs, DVDs, and other similar types of storage devices is quite similar under Mac OS X to what it was under Mac OS 9. The following bullets provide information about some useful disk-related tasks:
You can control whether mounted disk and volume icons are automatically shown on the desktop using the Finder Preferences window (choose Finder, Preferences). Check the “Show these items on the Desktop” check boxes to show icons on the desktop or uncheck them to keep those icons from appearing on the desktop. (If you chose not to have disk icons mounted on the desktop, you can access the mounted disks and volumes using the Computer directory.)
You can eject removable disks by dragging them to the Trash, ...
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