Using Disk Drives
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Hard Disk The Extensa notebook comes with a
540-million byte (524 MB) or higher
capacity hard disk drive. The hard disk
is formatted and loaded with software
during manufacture. Do not format
the hard disk.
Floppy Driv
e
The floppy drive can read from and
write to formatted 3.5-inch, double-
sided, high-density (2HD), 1.44 MB
floppies and to lower capacity, 720 KB,
double-density (2DD) floppies.
The floppy drive does not function at
low speed with the OS/2™ or Xenix™
operating systems.

Hard Disk Guidelines

If you want to format the hard disk, all data on
the hard disk will be erased.
Do not move the computer when the HDD
indicator is on. Press the Suspend to Disk
button to spin the hard drive down and put the
computer into suspend-to-disk mode before
moving the computer.
If the HARD DISK STANDBY TIMER parameter in
Setup is enabled and expires, the hard drive will
spin down to save power.
!
Caution: If the hard disk is damaged, you can
lose data. To reduce the impact of data loss,
back up data to floppies frequently.