Backing Lip Your Thinline Trsdos 2,0B Diskette - Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 16B User Manual

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BACKUP displays the following message when the backup is
complete
Backup Successfully Complete
Drive 2 Disk 10 is
TRSDDS-II Ready
If your screen displays a message that the backup aborted, repeat
Steps 5 through 7, using a different destination diskette
Backing Up Your Thinline TRSDOS 2.0b Diskette
To back up your Thinline TRSDOS 2 0b Diskette, you must use the
TRSDOS FORMAT and BACKUP utilities. The FORMAT utility
organizes the diskette to which the information is to be copied
("destination diskette) BACKUP then copies all the information
from the "source' diskette to the destination,
To format a blank diskette and then back up your Thinline TRSDOS
2,0b Diskette, follow these steps
1
Prepare a destination diskette by covering the write-protect
notch of a blank diskette with a write-enable tab
2
Power up or reset the computer. Press (RPT) (BREAK) to operate
under floppy diskette control
3.
Insert the TRSDOS 2 0b Diskette ("source" diskette) into Drive
0.
4.
When prompted, enter the date in mm/dd/yyyy format (for
example: 03/19/1983 for March 19, 1983). Press (ENTER) when
prompted for the time TRSDOS READY
IS
displayed
Customers with two or more floppy drives:
5.
Insert the destination diskette into Drive 2. At TRSDOS
READY, type
FORMAT 2 (ENTER)
6.
The folloWing prompt is displayed on the screen
Mount Diskette for Formatting on Drive 2
Continue? (Y/O)
Since you already have mounted your diskette on Drive 2,
type Y (ENTER) to continue,
1.
If you are formatting over a used diskette, the following
prompt might appear:
Diskette CONTAINS DATA; Format OVER it? (Y/O)
If you do not need the data on the diskette, type Y (ENTER), If
you might need the data, type
Q
(ENTER).
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