Atari Faicon030 Owner's Manual page 37

Falcon030 Owner's Manual
density disk. Disks used for dens it i es or storage beyond
thei r rating are not dependable.
You can reformat previously used floppy disks. S ince formatting erases all
information on a disk, i t is sometimes more effic ient to reformat a floppy disk
than to delete all of a floppy disk's files. However, do not format a disk one way
and then reformat it a d i fferent way l ater.
Caution: Formatting a floppy disk permanently erases all information on the
disk. Before you format any floppy disk, be sure to copy any data you want to
save.
Use the fol lowing steps to format a disk.
1 .
Start the computer. After the screen displays the desktop, insert the floppy disk into
the floppy disk drive.
2. Select the F o r m a t F lo ppy Dis k
Copy/Format dialog
Note: Both the Copy and Format operations are combined in one dialog box
so you can format and then copy disks without returning to the desktop after
formatting. If you select the Format option and decide to copy a disk
instead, click on COPY. You can also click on FORMAT after initiating a
disk copy operation if you must format a disk first.
3.
If you wish the disk to have a label, type in the label. Select a density setting,
depending on how you want to format the disk.
4.
Select
displays fo
5.
When the formatting
capacity in bytes.
2-8 Using Your Computer
box
appears.
O K .
The floppy disk drive begins formatting the disk. The indicator bar
tti progress.
rma ng
is
completed, an
c o m m a n d f r o m the File m e n u. The
alert ess g isp y
m a e d la s the
disks
formatted