Compaq E500S, V300 manual Solving Diskette Drive/SuperDisk LS-120 Drive Problems

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Solving Diskette Drive/SuperDisk LS-120 Drive Problems

Problem	Possible Cause	Solution
Drive cannot write to	Diskette is not	Format the diskette.
a diskette.	formatted.
	Diskette is	Use another diskette that
	write-protected.	is not write-protected or
		disable the write-protect
		feature.
	Writing to the wrong	Check the drive letter in
	drive	your path statement.
	Not enough space is	Save the information to
	left on the diskette.	another diskette.
	Drive is disabled.	Enable the proper drive
		through Device Manager.
	Disable diskette	Run Computer Setup
	write ability is turned	(Section 2.5). Select the
	on.	Storage icon. Make sure
		Disable diskette write
		ability is not checked.
System cannot start	A bootable diskette is	Verify that a diskette with
up from diskette or	not in the drive.	the necessary system
SuperDisk LS-120		files is in the drive.
drive.
	Diskette bootability is	Enable diskette
	disabled in Computer	bootability in Computer
	Setup.	Setup!Security menu.

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