Using Your 3.5-Inch Floppy Disk Drive
Using the Floppy Diskette
Using the Floppy Diskette
This section describes basic information needed for using your floppy dis- kettes.
Setting the Write-Protect Tab on a Diskette
You can only store or change information on a diskette when the write-protect tab is in the write position. So, before trying to write to the diskette, make sure that the write-protect tab is in the write position, as shown in Figure 18.
Push tab up for write.
Push tab down for write-protect
Setting the Write-Protect Tab on a Floppy Diskette
To protect files on a diskette from being overwritten, set the write-protect tab to the write-protectposition, as shown in Figure 18.
The write-protect tab should always be in the write position for formatting a new diskette and transferring data to a diskette.
