Fujitsu S7100 manual External USB Floppy Disk Drive, Loading a Disk, Ejecting a Disk

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L i f e B o o k S 7 1 0 0 N o t e b o o k

	Note: Illustration may vary,
Eject Button	depending upon which external
	floppy disk drive you are using.

Figure 4-6.Loading/Ejecting a 3.5” Floppy Disk

External USB

Floppy Disk Drive*

*Optional device

An external USB floppy disk drive is available as an option for your LifeBook notebook. The external floppy disk drive can read and write information on removable 1.44MB and 720KB floppy disks.

Your notebook is preconfigured to boot from a USB floppy drive. Reference the BIOS manual for further information on changing the default boot drive. The BIOS manual can be found on the Fujitsu Com- puter Systems support website: http//

www.computers.us.fujitsu.com/support.

LOADING A DISK

To load a disk into your disk drive, follow these easy steps:

1.Orient the disk so that its label is facing upwards and the shutter side is pointing towards the drive. (Figure 4-6)

2.Push the disk into the drive until the Eject button pops out and you hear a click.

When there is no disk in the drive, the

Eject button is flush with your notebook.

EJECTING A DISK

To eject a disk from the disk drive, follow these easy steps:

1.Check that the Floppy Disk Drive Access indicator is inactive.

2.Press the Eject button. This will push your disk partially out of the drive.

3.Remove the disk.

If you eject the disk while the Floppy Disk Drive Access indicator is active, there is a risk of damaging the data on the disk, the disk itself or even the disk drive.

PREPARING A DISK FOR USE

Before you can use a new disk, it needs to be prepared so your LifeBook notebook knows where to store infor- mation. This preparation is called formatting or initial- izing a disk. You will need to format new disks, unless they are preformatted. (Please refer to your operating system manual for step-by-step instructions on formatting a disk)

To prevent accidental erasure of the data stored on a disk, slide the “write protect” tab until a small hole is exposed. This sets the disk into a protected state where nothing can be added or removed. If you want to add or remove data on a protected disk, slide the “write protect” tab to close the small hole. (Figure 4-7)

Write Enabled

Write Protected

Figure 4-7. Floppy Disk Write Protect

Formatting a floppy disk that already con- tains data will erase all of the information on the disk.

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