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70 Chapter3
Using Your 3.5-Inch Floppy Disk Drive
Operating the Floppy Drive
Using the Floppy Diskette
This section describes basic information needed to use your floppy
diskettes.
Setting the Write-Protect Tab on a Diskette
You can only store or change information on a diskette when the
write-protect tab is in the write position. So, before trying to write to the
diskette, make sure that the write-protect tab is in the write position, as
shown in Figure 3-2.
Figure 3-2 Setting the Write-Protect Tab on a Floppy Diskette
To protect files on a diskette from being overwritten, set the
write-protect tab to the write-protect position.
NOTE The write-protect tab should always be in the write position for
formatting a new diskette and transferring data to a diskette.
Write-Protect Tab
Slide tab up for
Slide tab down to
write-protect
write