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Formatting Diskettes With One Diskette Drive
(No Hard Disk)
If your computer has only one diskette drive and no hard disk,
follow this procedure to format a diskette:
1.
Insert the working copy of your MS-DOS Startup diskette
in drive A.
2.
When you see the A> prompt, type the following and press
Enter:
FORMAT A:
You see this prompt:
Insert new diskette for drive A:
and strike ENTER when ready
3.
Remove the MS-DOS Startup diskette and insert the
diskette you want to format into the drive. Press Enter to
start formatting. When the diskette is formatted, you see a
message similar to this:
Format complete
1213952 bytes total disk space
1213952 bytes available on disk
Format another (Y/N)?
4. At this point, you can either format another diskette by
pressing Y and Enter, or return to the MS-DOS command
prompt by pressing N and
Enter.
The formatted diskette is now ready to store data.
Note
You can also format diskettes for 360KB in your Apex
computer. See the MS-DOS Reference Manual for
information about options you can use with the FORMAT
command.