[X Newbies] Disk Utility/RESOLVED

J themacintoshlady at earthlink.net
Tue Jan 20 09:08:40 PST 2004


On Tuesday, January 20, 2004, at 09:56  AM, Alex wrote:

>> [...] after racking my brain trying to figure out why they couldn't 
>> find ANY files with "disk" in the name I ask her how she spelled it. 
>> "D-I-S-C, just like on the CDs" she replied. [...]
>
> A subtle and often ignored point: in Computerese, "disk" is a magnetic 
> storage medium (e.g., hard disk), while "disc" is an optical storage 
> medium (e.g., compact disc).

Disk Utility was spelled right. I dont know why his search revealed 
nothing but when I got my hands on the computer I located it 
immediately.



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