Almost there with tuning

For the past month I've been having problems with my tuning and I finally figured out that the numbers and letters in the corner of my tuner corespond with the string. This whole time I thought my guitar was just out of tuned, when all I had to do was tighten the strings alittle more. Here's my new problem. I don't know what letters correspond with each string. I thought 'HC' was meant for the lowest string. I kept tightening it until I could get to 'HC' but the string broke. Can someone help me out here?

From Lowest/thickest string to highest/thinnest string standard tuning is this:

E A D G B E

With a tuner, you just need to remember the notes of standard (or other) tuning (as Kole posted.) Pluck the thick string (6th or E string,) now look at the tuner and tune your string until your tuner says E. Tuners will have a digital or analog readout of how close you are to a perfect E or A or any other note.



The pic is kinda small but on the left is a Needle type tuner, and on the right is a led type tuner. The top left pic is a not in tune E, the one below that is a perfectly tuned E. On the right the first pic is out of tune E, and next to that is a perfectly tuned E. Hope that helps.