Fujitsu P300 user manual Working with Floppy Disks

3 Floppy Disks

■Working with Floppy Disks

Follow the instructions supplied by the vendor of the floppy disks.

Never clean the floppy disk drives with cleaning disks. Any attempt would destroy the read/ write head in the disk drive within 20 seconds.

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1Insertion direction

2Label area

3Write protection switch for a 720 KB or a 1.44 MB floppy disk

4Identification of a 1.44 MB floppy disk or write protect switch on a 120 MB floppy disk

5Eject button for inserted floppy disks

6Disk is write-protected

7Disk is not write-protected

To insert a floppy disk, push it into the drive in the insertion direction until it engages. The label should be facing upward.

To remove the floppy disk, press the eject button (5).

The write-protect switch enables you to protect the data on the floppy disk from inadvertent overwriting or deletion.

To protect the data on the floppy disk from being overwritten, push the write-protect switch to position (6). The hole is now visible.

To remove write protection, push the switch to position (7). The hole is now covered.

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