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Floppy Disk Drive
Figure 4-2. Loading/Ejecting a 3.5” Floppy Disk
Floppy Disk Drive
Your LifeBook notebook has an internal floppy disk
drive which can read and write information on remov-
able 1.44 MB and 720 KB floppy disks.
LOADING A DISK
To load a disk into your disk drive, follow these steps:
1. Position the disk so that its label is facing upwards
and the shutter side is pointing towards the drive.
(Figure 4-2)
2. Push the disk into the drive until the Eject button
pops out and you hear a click.
EJECTING A DISK
To eject a disk from the disk drive, follow these steps:
1. Press the Eject button. This will push your disk
partially out of the drive.
2. Remove the disk
.
PREPARING A DISK FOR USE
Before you can use a new disk, it needs to be prepared
so that your notebook knows where to store information.
This procedure is called formatting or initializing a disk.
You need to format new disks, unless they are pre-
formatted. (Please refer to your operating system manual for
step-by-step instructions on formatting a disk)
To prevent accidental erasure of the data stored on a
disk, slide the “write protect” tab until a small hole is
exposed. This sets the disk into a protected state in
which nothing can be added or removed. If you want to
add or remove data on a protected disk, slide the “write
protect” tab to close the small hole. (Figure 4-3)
Figure 4-3. Floppy Disk Write Protect
Floppy Disk Eject Button
When there is no disk in the drive, the
Eject button is flush with your LifeBook
notebook.
Formatting a floppy disk that already
contains data will erase all of the
information on the disk.
Write Protected
Write Enabled
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