THE SYSTEM DRIVES
2 THE SYSTEM DRIVES
This chapter contains useful information about the drives that are currently fitted in your computer, either behind the front
Using the floppy disk drive
The floppy disk drive is usually configured in the system BIOS as drive A:, with a capacity of 1.44 Mbytes.
Virtually all software still supplied on floppy disk is now sent out in HD (or 1.44 MB) format from the manufacturer. This is the type of drive fitted to your Apricot computer. This drive will however read the common older type of
The true high density floppy has the ‘HD’ logo near the window and an extra hole beside the label, to enable the drive to identify it. The other hole, that exists on both disks, is for a write protect tab (on the underside) which, if closed, will prevent the system from writing any data onto the disk.
Do not try to force the format of a