Floppy Disk Drive; Loading A Disk; Ejecting A Disk; Preparing A Disk For Use - Fujitsu LifeBook E Series Owner's Manual

Floppy Disk Drive

Depending upon its configuration, your Fujitsu Life-
Book notebook has either an external USB floppy disk
drive or a modular floppy disk drive with the ability to
read and write information on removable 3.5" 1.44MB
and 720KB floppy disks.
P O I N T
The system BIOS automatically defaults to recognize a
USB floppy disk drive. If you install a modular floppy
disk drive, you will need to change the BIOS settings to
(See BIOS Setup Utility on page 35 for
recognize it.
more information)

LOADING A DISK

To load a disk into your disk drive, follow these easy
steps:
1. Orient the disk so that its label is facing upwards
and the shutter side is pointing towards the drive.
(Figure 4-2)
2. Push the disk into the drive until the Eject button
pops out and you hear a click.
P O I N T
When there is no disk in the drive, the Eject button is
flush with your LifeBook notebook.

EJECTING A DISK

To eject a disk from the disk drive, follow these easy
steps:
1. Check that the Floppy Disk Drive Access indicator
is inactive.
2. Press the Eject button. This will push your disk
partially out of the drive.
3. Remove the disk.
Figure 4-2 Loading/Ejecting a 3.5" Floppy Disk
If you eject the disk while the Floppy Disk Drive Access
indicator is active, there is a risk of damaging the data
on the disk, the disk itself or even the disk drive.

PREPARING A DISK FOR USE

Before you can use a new disk, it needs to be prepared
so your LifeBook notebook knows where to store infor-
mation. This preparation is called formatting or initial-
izing a disk. You will need to format new disks, unless
they are preformatted. (Please refer to your operating
system manual for step-by-step instructions on formatting a
disk.)
To prevent accidental erasure of the data stored on a
disk, slide the "write protect" tab until a small hole is
exposed. This sets the disk into a protected state where
nothing can be added or removed. If you want to add or
remove data on a protected disk, slide the "write
protect" tab to close the small hole. (Figure 4-3)
Formatting a floppy disk that already contains data will
erase all of the information on the disk.
U s e r - I n s t a l l a b l e F e a t u r e s
Eject Button
C A U T I O N
Write Enabled
Write Protected
Figure 4-3 Floppy Disk Write Protect
C A U T I O N
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