How To Prevent Overwriting Of A Diskette - Sun Microsystems Enterprise 250 Owner's Manual

How to Prevent Overwriting of a
Diskette
You can physically protect a diskette (write-protect it) so that data cannot be erased
or overwritten. Once you have write-protected a diskette, additional information
cannot be saved on it. When you no longer want to protect the information on a
diskette, you can change it back to write-enable status and once again write and
store information on it.
What to Do
1. Turn the diskette upside-down and find the write-protect tab.
2. Move the tab toward the diskette's edge until you can see through the notch.
Use a ballpoint pen or other implement. When you can see through the notch, the
diskette is write-protected.
Tab
What Next
If you want to change the diskette to write-enable status, see:
"How to Allow Writing to a Diskette" on page 195
194 Sun Enterprise 250 Server Owner's Guide • June 1998
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