Identifying Your Storage Drives; Using Your Diskette Drive - HP Compaq Presario,Presario 1700 Reference Manual

Identifying Your Storage Drives

Your diskette drive, hard drive, CD or DVD, and SuperDisk drive are designated
with letters of the alphabet, as well as with icons.
To determine your drive letters, complete the following steps:
1. From the Windows desktop, double-click the My Computer
icons for your drives will be displayed in the My Computer window. The drive
letters are found next to the corresponding icons.
2. Use the icons below to identify your drive.
3 ½ Floppy Drive ________
Standard Diskette Drive or
SuperDisk Drive
Drive ________
CD or DVD Drive
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NOTE: The CD or DVD drive and the SuperDisk drive are available only on select
models.

Using Your Diskette Drive

To insert a diskette into the diskette drive, hold the diskette with the label facing up
and the arrow on the diskette pointing towards the drive, and gently push the
diskette into the drive.
To remove a diskette, press the Eject button on the diskette drive.
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CAUTION: Removing a diskette when the drive is reading from or writing to the
diskette can damage the diskette or damage the information stored on it. Wait until
the diskette drive activity is complete before removing a diskette.
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Hard Drive
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