How To Prepare Diskettes For Use - Toshiba Portégé 650CT User Manual

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How to Prepare Diskettes for Use

Printing Your Work
Once you have set up your printer and software correctly, it
requires only a simple action to print a file from within a Windows
application. Follow these steps:
1 Turn your printer on, if it's not already on.
2 Choose Print from the File menu of your Windows
application.
A sample Print dialog box
3 Choose OK to print.
That's all there is to it. Depending on your application, you may
see different messages indicating the status of your print job.
How to Prepare Diskettes for Use
Formatting makes it possible to use a diskette. You don't really
need to know what's going on when you format a diskette, but if
you're interested, the details are covered in "How Does a Disk
Store Information?" on page 294.
Your computer uses high density diskettes. There are two types of
high density diskettes you can buy—formatted and unformatted.
If you've purchased formatted diskettes, you don't need the infor-
mation in this section because the diskette manufacturer has taken
care of the process for you. If the package doesn't say anything
about formatting, your diskettes are probably unformatted.
Part I: Getting To Know Your Computer