Working with the notebook
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Floppy Disk Drive
The floppy disk drive is located on the left-hand side of your notebook.
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Never clean the floppy disk drive with cleaning disks. Any attempt would destroy the
read/write head in the disk drive within 20 seconds.
Make sure that no floppy disk is inserted in the floppy disk drive during transport.
Otherwise the eject button may break off and the floppy disk drive will be damaged.
Working with floppy disks
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Follow the instructions supplied by the vendor of the floppy disks.
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1 = Insertion direction
2 = Label area
3 = Write protection tab for a 1.44 Mbyte floppy disk
4 = Identification of a 1.44 MB floppy disk or write protect switch on a 120 MB floppy disk
5 = Eject button for inserted floppy disks
6 = Disk is write-protected
7 = Disk is not write-protected
To insert a diskette:
Ê Push the floppy disk into the drive in the insertion direction (1) until it engages. The label
should be facing upward.
To remove a diskette:
Ê Push the eject button (5).
Protect the floppy disk against being overwritten or erased
Ê Slide the write-protect slider into position (6). The hole is now visible.
Deactivate write protection
Ê Slide the write-protect slider into position (7). The hole is now covered.
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