Windows 8 Bible

Chapter 27

Understanding Drives, Folders, and Files

IN THIS CHAPTER

Disk drives, disks, and memory cards

Navigating through folders with File Explorer

Clicking, viewing, and arranging icons your way

Stop losing saved files

Beginners and casual users are often thrown by terms like drive, folder, file, icon, kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, terabyte, and so forth. Virtually every resource you turn to assumes that you already know what these things mean. Nobody ever bothers to explain them. That’s because these terms and concepts have remained unchanged for the past 25 years or so.

Of course, just because those terms have been around for a long time doesn’t mean everyone understands them. In fact, for every person who knows what those terms mean, you can be sure many thousands don’t. So in this chapter, we’re going to break from tradition and explain those terms.