A Computer is Like a Filing Cabinet

Drives, Folders, and Documents

Do you remember what hardware is?

You will learn how to save a document to your H: drive.

The computer is on. Here’s the desktop

Computer icon

The computer is like a filing cabinet.

The computer has drives.Drives are like the drawers in

the filing cabinet.

Just like a file drawer, a drive is filled with folders and documents.

Here’s what’s inside both a computer folder and a filing cabinet folder.

Documents!

You have your own special drive. It’s called an H: drive. It’s where you store all of your work. Do you see the H:?