Acer M11E 2.10.3 Disk Drive Control

Setup Utility 2-41

2.10.3 Disk 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

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