Dell 8600 manual Drive Problems, If you cannot save a file to a floppy drive

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Drive Problems

NOTE: For information on saving files to a floppy disk, see the Tell Me How help file. To access the help file, see page 94.

If you cannot save a file to a floppy drive

EN S U R E T H A T WI N D O W S ® R E C O G N I Z E S T H E D R I V E — Click the Start button and click My Computer. If the drive is not listed, perform a full scan with your antivirus software to check for and remove viruses. Viruses can sometimes prevent Windows from recognizing the drive. Insert a bootable disk and restart

the computer. Verify that the light is blinking, indicating normal operation.

EN S U R E T H A T T H E D I S K I S N O T W R I T E -P R O T E C T E D — You cannot save data to a write-protected disk. See the following figure.

back of floppy disk

write-protected

not write-protected

TR Y A N O T H E R F L O P P Y D I S K — Insert another disk to eliminate the possibility that the original disk is defective.

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