Commodore Amiga 500+ User Manual page 5

Finally if you have any external floppy disk drives plug them in to the External Drive
socket on the back of the Amiga. Further drives can be added to other drives. If you
have an external hard disk, remove the cover from the Expansion port on the left-
hand side of the Amiga and slot in the drive.
Now switch on the power and press the power switch located on the Power Supply
for the Amiga and switch on the monitor.
If you do not have disks inserted you will see the Insert Disk screen below:
Figure 2
You can then insert either a Workbench disk or any other bootable disk such as a
game into the floppy drive on the right-hand side of the Amiga (called DF0: - Disk
Floppy Zero).
Insert your Original Workbench disk and wait for the workbench screen to appear.
Before continuing, I recommend that you make one or more copies of your original
Workbench disks to use rather than the Original as that can become damaged over
time and you may need to make other copies later.
To make a copy, get hold of a blank 880K double-density disk ready, then move the
white arrow (called a pointer) with the mouse over the Workbench disk and click the
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