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Formatting diskettes with a hard disk, Formatting diskettes with two diskette drives – Epson 20 User Manual

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Formatting Diskettes With a Hard Disk

1. If necessary, log onto drive C. If you are not in the directory

where the file FORMAT.COM is stored, change to that directory.

2. When you see the C > prompt, type the following and press

Enter:

FORMAT A:

You see this prompt:

Insert new diskette for drive A:
and strike ENTER when ready

3. Insert the diskette you want to format in drive A and press

Enter.

4. When the diskette is formatted, you see a message similar to this:

Format complete

1213952 bytes total disk space
1213952 bytes available on disk
Format another (Y/N)?

At this point, you can either format another diskette by pressing

Y and

Enter,

or return to the MS-DOS command prompt by

pressing

N

and

Enter.

Formatting Diskettes With Two Diskette Drives

1. Make sure you are logged onto drive A, with your working copy

of the MS-DOS Startup diskette in the drive.

2. When you see the A > prompt, type

FORMAT B

: and press

Enter.

You see this prompt:

Insert new diskette for drive B:

and strike ENTER when ready

3. Insert the diskette you want to format into drive B and press

Enter.

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Using

MS-DOS

with Your Equity 386

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