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Using floppy disk drives and floppy disks
Keep the following in mind when you use floppy disks:
m To eject a floppy disk in the PC environment, press x-E.
m In the PC environment, the floppy disk drives are A and B.
m In the PC environment, you cannot use a Mac OS–formatted floppy disk. If
you insert one, it will be ejected.
m You can use a locked PC disk in both the PC and Mac OS environments.
m You can access an unlocked floppy disk in the environment that was active
when you inserted the floppy disk, but not in the other environment.
m In the PC environment, blank disks are formatted for the PC. In the
Mac OS, you can format disks for either environment.
m Some blank disks are preformatted. If you insert a new, blank disk in the
PC environment and it is ejected, it may have been preformatted in Mac OS
format. To use the disk in the PC environment, you can switch to the Mac
OS and format the disk for the PC. For instructions, see the documentation
that came with your computer or Mac OS software upgrade kit.
Note: Removable media drives such as Zip or Syquest drives are not directly
accessible from the PC environment in the same way that your CD-ROM and
floppy disk drives are. However, you can set up a shared folder in the Mac OS
environment and then transfer information to and from the removable media.
For more information see “Using Shared Volumes” in Chapter 3, “Setting Up
the PC Environment.”
Restarting the PC from a floppy disk
To restart (reboot) the PC using a floppy disk, insert a floppy disk containing
operating system software into the disk drive. Press Control-Alt-… to restart
the PC.
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