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Epson 10020 User Manual

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Using DISKCOPY with one drive only

If your computer has only one diskette drive and no hard disk,

follow these steps to copy a diskette:

1.

Make sure the diskette you want to copy is write-protected.

(See Chapter 2 for instructions.)

2.

Insert the Operating 1 diskette in the diskette drive.

3.

At

A>

prompt, type the following and press Enter:

DISKCOPY A: A:

MS-DOS displays this message:

Insert SOURCE diskette in drive A:

Press any key when ready . . .

4.

Remove the Operating 1 diskette and insert the diskette
you want to copy (the source) in the diskette drive and
press any key. DISKCOPY copies

the contents

of the

diskette to the computer’s memory. Then the screen
displays this message:

Insert TARGET diskette in drive A:

Press any key when ready . . .

5.

Remove the original diskette from drive A and insert the
blank diskette (the target) in the drive. Press any key. If
the

new

diskette

is not formatted,

DISKCOPY formats it

and then copies the contents of

memory to the diskette.

When the copy is

complete, you see this message:

Copy another diskette (Y/N)?

6. Press Y and Enter to copy another diskette or N and Enter

to return to the MS-DOS command prompt.

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