Hitachi SA200 manual Using the Floppy Disk Drive, About Floppy Disks, Formatting Floppy Disks

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3 Using Your Laptop

Using the Floppy Disk Drive

Your laptop features a high-density 3.5 inch, removable floppy disk drive. This drive is designated drive “A” by your laptop’s operating system and is housed in the laptop’s peripheral bay. See Figure 2 on page 6. See “Exchanging the Peripheral Bay Modules” beginning on page 54 for detailed information on removing your floppy disk drive and replacing it with the

CD-ROM module.

About Floppy Disks

Your computer’s floppy disk drive accepts both 720KB double- density (DD) floppy disks and 1.44MB high-density(HD) floppy disks, but 2.88MB (High Density) disks are not supported. Floppy disks are sometimes labeled by manufacturers as double density 1.0MB and high density 2.0MB floppy disks. These labels, however, indicate the unformatted capacities of the floppy disks.

Formatting Floppy Disks

Sometimes you must format a new floppy disk before you can use it. To format a floppy disk using Windows 95:

1.Insert a new floppy disk into the floppy disk drive.

2.Double-click on the My Computer icon.

3.Click on Floppy [A:].

4.From the File menu, click on Format. A dialog box displays to enable you to select some settings.

5.Click on Start to begin formatting. After this process is complete, the floppy disk will be ready to use.

Inserting and Removing Floppy Disks

To insert a 3.5 inch floppy disk into the floppy disk drive, follow these steps:

1.Hold the floppy disk with the drive wheel facing down and the metal shutter end toward the drive.

2.Insert the floppy disk into the drive slot and gently push it into the drive.

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