Getting Started — Connecting a USB Floppy Disk Drive

Connecting a USB Floppy Disk Drive

Your notebook computer supports a USB 1.44 MB floppy disk drive (must be purchased separately). The FDD is “hot pluggable,” so you do not have to power down the notebook to connect it.

Floppy disk drive

USB connector

Disk Drives

Your computer comes with several components for reading and writing (recording) information.

Floppy Disk Drive

The floppy disk drive provides a convenient way of storing and transferring small files. The disk drive uses standard 3.5-inch, 1.44 MB disks. To use the disk drive, insert a disk (label side up) into the drive slot and slide it all the way in. To eject the disk from the drive, press the eject button. When the computer is reading from or writing to a disk, the disk indicator light will flash. Do not try to eject the disk when the light is active or you may lose data.

Hard Disk Drive

The hard disk provides high-capacity storage and fast access. Windows and most programs are stored here. Your notebook identifies the hard disk drive as drive C.

Optical Drive

Your computer comes with a pre-installed combination DVD and CD-RW optical drive. The optical drive can read CD and DVD media and write to CD-R and CD-RW media.