Epson 386SX User Manual

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3. If necessary, remove the Startup diskette from drive A.

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

Enter

to start formatting.

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

Format complete

Volume label (11 characters, ENTER

for none)?

5. At the

Volume label

prompt, you can enter a name

to describe the information the diskette will contain. The

name (the volume label) will appear whenever you view the

contents of a directory on the diskette using the DIR
command. The volume label can be up to 11 characters

long and can consist of any characters or numbers, except

for blank spaces and the following symbols:

After you name the diskette, press

Enter.

(If you do not

want to name the diskette, simply press

Enter.)

Then you

see messages such as the following:

1457664 bytes total disk space

1457664 bytes available on disk

512 bytes in each allocation unit

2847 allocation units available on disk

Volume Serial Number is 344A-15DB

Format another (Y/N)?

6. To format another diskette, press Y and

Enter.

To return to

the MS-DOS command prompt, press

and

Enter.

Using MS-DOS with Your Equity 386SX

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