Fujitsu P301, P310 user manual Working with Floppy Disks

3 Floppy Disks

■Working with Floppy Disks

Follow the instructions supplied by the vendor of the floppy disks.

Never clean the floppy disk drives with cleaning disks. Any attempt would destroy the read/ write head in the disk drive within 20 seconds.

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1Insertion direction

2Label area

3Write protection switch for a 720 KB or a 1.44 MB floppy disk

4Identification of a 1.44 MB floppy disk or write protect switch on a 120 MB floppy disk

5Eject button for inserted floppy disks

6Disk is write-protected

7Disk is not write-protected

￿To insert a floppy disk, push it into the drive in the insertion direction until it engages. The label should be facing upward.

￿To remove the floppy disk, press the eject button (5).

The write-protect switch enables you to protect the data on the floppy disk from inadvertent overwriting or deletion.

￿To protect the data on the floppy disk from being overwritten, push the write-protect switch to position (6). The hole is now visible.

￿To remove write protection, push the switch to position (7). The hole is now covered.

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