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Apple IIe Card User Manual

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I can’t eject the disk from the built-in disk drive

Use the Eject buttons in the Option Panel, or press

x-Shift-1.

(Press

x-Shift-2 to eject a disk from a second built-in disk drive.)

The disk label may be sticking, or the disk may be in backward.
Call your authorized Apple dealer to help fix these problems.

I can’t eject the disk from an external disk drive

If the drive is a UniDisk 3.5 Drive, make sure the drive is properly
connected and that the Macintosh is turned on. Make sure the
computer is turned off before you connect or disconnect any cables.

If the drive is a UniDisk 3.5 Drive, press the Eject button on the drive.
If the drive is an Apple 5.25 Drive, open the disk drive door.

The disk label may be sticking, or the disk may be in backward.
Call your authorized Apple dealer to help fix these problems.

I get the message “File couldn’t be written and was skipped.”

Make sure that all the files you are copying have fewer than
15 characters in their names.

I’m a floppy disk startup person and sometimes I have trouble
launching Macintosh programs after I’ve started up from the

IIe Startup Disk

Make sure the

IIe Startup Disk has not been ejected before you

launch the program.

Problems running

Macintosh programs

Problems copying files to

Apple IIe disks

Problems ejecting disks

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