External Floppy Disk Drive; Loading A Disk; Ejecting A Disk; Preparing A Disk For Use - Fujitsu S Series.book User Manual

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External Floppy Disk Drive

Your Fujitsu LifeBook notebook has a external floppy disk
drive which can read and write information on removable
1.44MB and 720KB floppy disks.

LOADING A DISK

To load a disk into your disk drive, follow these easy steps:
1. Orient the disk so that its label is facing upwards
and the shutter side is pointing towards the drive.
(Figure 4-2)
2. Push the disk into the drive until the Eject button
pops out and you hear a click.
P O I N T
When there is no disk in the drive, the Eject button is
flush with your notebook.

EJECTING A DISK

To eject a disk from the disk drive, follow these easy steps:
1. Check that the Floppy Disk Drive Access indicator
is inactive.
2. Press the Eject button. This will push your disk
partially out of the drive.
3. Remove the disk.
C A U T I O N
If you eject the disk while the Floppy Disk Drive Access
indicator is active, there is a risk of damaging the data
on the disk, the disk itself or even the disk drive.
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Figure 4-2 Loading/Ejecting a 3.5" Floppy Disk

PREPARING A DISK FOR USE

Before you can use a new disk, it needs to be prepared
so your notebook knows where to store information.
This preparation is called formatting or initializing a
disk. You will need to format new disks, unless they are
preformatted. (Please refer to your operating system
manual for step-by-step instructions on formatting a disk)
To prevent accidental erasure of the data stored on a disk,
slide the "write protect" tab until a small hole is exposed.
This sets the disk into a protected state where nothing can
be added or removed. If you want to add or remove data on
a protected disk, slide the "write protect" tab to close the
small hole. (Figure 4-3)
Write Protected
Figure 4-3 Floppy Disk Write Protect
C A U T I O N
Formatting a floppy disk that already contains data will
erase all of the information on the disk.
Eject Button
Write Enabled