User Guide Desktop PC Equity 386SX/16 PLUS

Because of these incompatibilities, always indicate the

diskette type and density when you label your diskettes.

(Usually this information appears on the manufacturer’s

label.)

If you have any combination of the above drives (1.44 MB,

1.2MB, 720KB, or 360KB), you can copy files from one drive

to another-using COPY or XCOPY-as long as the correct

diskette type is in each drive. You can also use these

commands to copy files between a hard disk and any type of

diskette. However, you cannot use the MS-DOS DISKCOPY

command to copy from one diskette drive to another if the

two drives are not the same type. For more about copying

files and diskettes, see your MS-DOS Reference Manual.

Caring for Diskettes and Diskette Drives

Follow these basic precautions to protect your diskettes and

avoid losing data:

If you have a diskette that contains data you don’t want

to accidentally write over or erase, be sure you write-

protect it. This is especially important for your operating

system and application program diskettes. See “Write-

protecting Diskettes,” below, for more details.

Do not remove a diskette from the diskette drive or reset

or turn off the computer while the drive light is on. This

light indicates that the computer is copying data to or

from a diskette. If you interrupt this process, you can

destroy data.

Remove all diskettes before you turn off the computer.

Keep diskettes away from dust and dirt. Small particles of

dust or dirt can scratch the magnetic surface, destroy

data, and ruin the read/write heads in a diskette drive.

Never wipe, brush, or try to clean diskettes in any way.

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