Formatting Diskettes With One Diskette Drive (No Hard Disk) - Epson Apex 20020, 20040 User Manual

Formatting Diskettes With One Diskette Drive
(No Hard Disk)
If your computer has only one diskette drive and no hard disk,
follow this procedure to format a diskette:
1. Insert the working copy of your MS-DOS Startup diskette
in drive A.
2. When you see the
Enter:
FORMAT A:
You see this prompt:
Insert
and strike ENTER when ready
3. Remove the MS-DOS Startup diskette and insert the
diskette you want to format into the drive. Press
start formatting. When the diskette is formatted, you see a
message similar to this:
Format complete
1213952 bytes total disk space
1213952 bytes available on disk
Format another (Y/N)?
4. At this point, you can either format another diskette by
pressing Y and
prompt by pressing N and
The formatted diskette is now ready to store data.
Note
You can also format diskettes for 360KB in your Apex
computer. See the MS-DOS Reference Manual for
information about options you can use with the FORMAT
command.
prompt, type the following and press
A>
new diskette for drive A:
or return to the MS-DOS command
Enter,
Enter.
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