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Computing Fundamentals
Lesson 13 Summary

• Formatting prepares a disk for use on a specific type of drive. In this context, formatting means imprinting a disk with the information it needs to work in that kind of drive. At the same time, formatting erases any information previously stored on the disk.
• You can give a disk an electronic (or magnetic) volume label. You can re-label a disk by keying a new name in the text box in the disk’s Properties dialog box.
• You can use Disk Cleanup to clear your disk of unnecessary files.
• You can assign descriptive names up to 255 characters long to folders and files; however, only Windows 95 and higher can accommodate long names. Windows will assign a short filename, called an alias, to each of these files so they can be used with programs that don’t support long filenames.
• You can easily rename folders.
• Deleting a folder or subfolder deletes all the files within the folder as well. Folders deleted from a hard disk are transferred to the

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