Apple 4400, 7300 Using floppy disk drives and floppy disks, Restarting the PC from a floppy disk

Using floppy disk drives and floppy disks

Keep the following in mind when you use floppy disks:

mTo eject a floppy disk in the PC environment, press x-E.

mIn the PC environment, the floppy disk drives are A and B.

mIn the PC environment, you cannot use a Mac OS–formatted floppy disk. If you insert one, it will be ejected.

mYou can use a locked PC disk in both the PC and Mac OS environments.

mYou can access an unlocked floppy disk in the environment that was active when you inserted the floppy disk, but not in the other environment.

mIn the PC environment, blank disks are formatted for the PC. In the Mac OS, you can format disks for either environment.

mSome blank disks are preformatted. If you insert a new, blank disk in the PC environment and it is ejected, it may have been preformatted in Mac OS format. To use the disk in the PC environment, you can switch to the Mac OS and format the disk for the PC. For instructions, see the documentation that came with your computer or Mac OS software upgrade kit.

Note: Removable media drives such as Zip or Syquest drives are not directly accessible from the PC environment in the same way that your CD-ROM and floppy disk drives are. However, you can set up a shared folder in the Mac OS environment and then transfer information to and from the removable media. For more information see “Using Shared Volumes” in Chapter 3, “Setting Up the PC Environment.”

Restarting the PC from a floppy disk

To restart (reboot) the PC using a floppy disk, insert a floppy disk containing operating system software into the disk drive. Press Control-Alt-…to restart the PC.

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