Once DOS is loaded into the RAM from the disk, it displays a prompt on the screen, indicating that it is ready to accept instructions from you. You can type all your commands at this prompt. The most common appearance of the DOS prompt is shown in Fig.D-2. The first character tells you which disk drive is currently active. DOS normally refers to the hard disk drive as drive C: (the floppy disk drives are referred to as A or B.

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colon, a slash (\) and then a 'greater than' (» sign. You will notice a cursor blinking after this prompt. Sometimes your prompt may look different as shown below: a case, just type cd\ and press the Enter key. Your prompt would change to C.