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Inserting and removing diskettes – Epson Equity II User Manual

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You need to prepare your hard disk before you can run an operating

system on it. Refer to “Using a Hard Disk Drive” in Chapter 3 and your

MS-DOS (or other operating system) manual for instructions on how to

prepare a hard disk for use.

When your hard disk is set up to automatically boot MS-DOS, the

operating system loads when you turn on the computer. The date and

time prompts display and you see the system prompt:

Inserting and Removing Diskettes

Follow these steps to insert a diskette into a floppy disk drive:

1.

Hold the diskette with the label face up and the write-protect notch

to the left (so that the read/write slot is away from you).

2.

Slide the diskette into the disk drive as shown in Figure

2-l.

Figure

2-1.

Inserting diskettes

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