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Care and handling – Micron Technology MERIDIAN 850 User Manual

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Chapter 4 - How to Use Your Meridian 850

Care and Handling

A few things to remember when handling floppy disks:

• Handle disks carefully.

• Don’t remove a disk from a drive while its platter is spinning.

• Don’t touch or scratch any exposed portion of the disk’s shiny

surface, or allow dust or moisture to collect on the disk.

• Store disks at a temperature range between 50-120 degrees F

(10-49C).

• Keep disks away from magnetic fields.

• Format a new disk before you use it for storing data. Before you

begin the format, make sure the disk doesn’t contain anything you
want to save. Formatting a disk will erase all data stored on it.

Write protect notch

Sensing hole

3.5” 1.44MB High Density Floppy Disk