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[[!meta title="Accessing the internal hard disk"]]
<div class="caution">
<p>Accessing internal disks of the computer has security implications:
<ul>
<li>You can leave traces of your Tails activities on the hard disks.</li>
<li>If Tails is compromised, a malware could install itself on your usual operating system.</li>
<li>If an application in Tails is compromised, it could access private data on your disks and use it to deanonymize you.</li>
</ul>
</p>
</div>
To access internal hard disks:
When starting Tails, [[set up an administration password|doc/first_steps/welcome_screen/administration_password]].
Choose **Apps&nbsp;▸ Utilities&nbsp;▸ Disks** to open the *Disks* utility.
In the left pane of the *Disks* utility, select the storage device that corresponds to your internal hard disk.
Verify its brand and size.
In the right pane is displayed a schema of the partitions on your internal hard disk.
Select the partition of your internal hard disk that you want to access.
In the **Authentication Required** dialog, enter your administration password.
Select the [[!img lib/media-playback-start.png alt="Mount selected partition" class="symbolic" link="no"]] button to mount the partition.
Select the */media/amnesia/* link to open the volume in the *Files* browser.
<p>If your usual operating system is in
hibernation, accessing it might corrupt your file system. Only access your disk
if your system was shut down entirely.</p>
<div class="note">
<p>If you have a GNU/Linux system on your disks, you can only access
files owned by the first user (with UID 1000) on that system.</p>
<p>In all cases, you might encounter permissions problems. To bypass
permission limitations, you can run the <i>Files</i> browser
with administration rights.</p>

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