HP B132L, B160L, B180L manual Using Your 3.5-Inch Floppy Disk Drive

Contents

4 Using Your 3.5-Inch Floppy Disk Drive

Using the Floppy Diskette	65
Setting the Write-Protect Tab on a Diskette			65
Inserting and Removing a Diskette		66
Operating the Floppy Drive	67
Verifying the Floppy Drive Configuration			67
Using Device Files 68
Formatting a New Diskette	69
Transferring Data To and From a Floppy Diskette 70
Saving Files to a Floppy Diskette		70

Restoring Files from a Floppy Diskette to Your System 70 Listing the Files on a Floppy Diskette 71

For More Information 72

Configuring the Floppy Driver 73

Troubleshooting 74

Ordering Information 74

5 Solving Problems

Common Problems and Solutions 77

Problems with Powering Up the System		77
Problems Loading and Booting the Operating System 78
Problems with the 802.3 Network 79
Problems Using a Hard Disk Drive	80
Problems Using the CD-ROM Drive	81
Problems Using the DDS Tape Drive	82
Problems Using the Floppy Disk Drive		83
LED Error Codes 84
Dealing with a Boot Failure 87
Running System Verification Tests	88

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