UTILITY Menu

The side menu is made up of 2 pages. Select More to display the second page of the side menu.

Floppy Disk Format. This instrument can format 2DD (double density) and 2HD (high density) disks in three different MS-DOS formats: IBM-PC format, NEC PC9800 series format, and Toshiba J3100 series format. Formatted disks are automatically labeled ªAWG2021º.

New floppy disks must be formatted before they can be used. Figure 3 -178 shows the sub-menu displayed after formatting the disk.

Figure 3 178: Format... Sub Menu Display

Formatting disks. To format floppy disks, perform these steps:

1.Select Disk from the bottom menu.

2.Insert the 3.5-inch floppy disk to be formatted into the disk drive on the right side panel of this instrument.

￿￿UTION￿ Formatting a disk destroys any data on that disk! Before formatting a disk, make sure it contains no data you might ever need.

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