Caring For Diskettes And Diskette Drives - Epson EQUITY 386SX/16 PLUS User Manual

Because of these incompatibilities, always indicate the
diskette type and density when you label your diskettes.
(Usually this information appears on the manufacturer's
label.)
If you have any combination of the above drives (1.44 MB,
1.2MB, 720KB, or 360KB), you can copy files from one drive
to another-using COPY or XCOPY-as long as the correct
diskette type is in each drive. You can also use these
commands to copy files between a hard disk and any type of
diskette. However, you cannot use the MS-DOS DISKCOPY
command to copy from one diskette drive to another if the
two drives are not the same type. For more about copying
files and diskettes, see your MS-DOS Reference Manual.

Caring for Diskettes and Diskette Drives

Follow these basic precautions to protect your diskettes and
avoid losing data:
to accidentally write over or erase, be sure you write-
protect it. This is especially important for your operating
system and application program diskettes. See "Write-
protecting Diskettes," below, for more details.
or turn off the computer while the drive light is on. This
light indicates that the computer is copying data to or
from a diskette. If you interrupt this process, you can
destroy data.
dust or dirt can scratch the magnetic surface, destroy
data, and ruin the read/write heads in a diskette drive.
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