Commodore PC 10 - If You Have Only One Floppy Disk Drive

If You Have Only One Floppy Disk Drive
If your computer has only one floppy disk drive, you can still use
MS·DOS commands as you would on a system with more than one
drive, but you must specify a drive name as welL By specifying
the drive letter you tell your computer to perform the command
on that drive. MS· DOS then prompts you to insert the proper disk,
as in
the following example:
A> format a: Iv
Insert new diskette for drive A:
and strike ENTER when ready_
If you specify drive B in a command when you have only one
drive, MS· DOS prompts you to insert the disk for drive B. In this
case A and B
represent the disks that you put into the single
drive.
For example,
to make a copy of your MS·DOS disk, type the follow-
ing at
the MS· DOS prompt:
diskcopy a: b:
MS· DOS responds with the following message:
Insert SOURCE diskette in drive A:
Press any key when ready . .
Remove the MS· DOS disk, put the blank disk into the drive, and
press any key. You may
need to reinsert the disks for drives A and
B several times to complete the copy process.
Note The letter in the system prompt represents the default
drive; it
does not represent the last disk used.
Getting Started 231
Single drive
computers
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You now know how to start and quit the MS·DOS operating system, What's next?
and you've used some simple commands to copy and format your
disks. In the next chapter you will learn to use more MS· DOS com-
mands.
As you read about these commands and start to use them,
you'll begin
to understand how the MS·DOS operating system
works, and you'll begin
to see what this system can do for you.