2.10.3Disk Drive Control

The disk drive control features allow you to control the floppy drive or the hard disk drive boot function to prevent loading operating systems or other programs from a certain drive while the other drives are operational (under DOS mode only).

Table 2-2 lists the drive control settings and their corresponding functions.

Table 2-2

Drive Control Settings

 

 

 

 

 

Floppy Drive

 

 

 

 

Setting

Description

 

Normal

 

Floppy drive functions normally

 

 

 

 

Write Protect All Sectors

Disables the write function on

 

 

 

all sectors

 

 

 

 

Write Protect Boot Sector

Disables the write function only

 

 

 

on the boot sector

 

 

 

 

Hard Disk Drive

 

 

 

Setting

Description

 

Normal

 

Hard disk drive functions

 

 

 

normally

 

 

 

 

Write Protect All Sectors

Disables the write function on

 

 

 

all sectors

 

 

 

 

Write Protect Boot Sector

Disables the write function only

 

 

 

on the boot sector

 

 

 

 

Setup Utility

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Acer M11E manual Disk Drive Control, Drive Control Settings