- Meridian 850 User's Guide

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Chapter 4 - How to Use Your Meridian 850
Care and Handling
A few things to remember when handling floppy disks:
• Handle disks carefully.
• Don’t remove a disk from a drive while its platter is spinning.
• Don’t touch or scratch any exposed portion of the disk’s shiny
surface, or allow dust or moisture to collect on the disk.
• Store disks at a temperature range between 50-120 degrees F
(10-49C).
• Keep disks away from magnetic fields.
• Format a new disk before you use it for storing data. Before you
begin the format, make sure the disk doesn’t contain anything you
want to save. Formatting a disk will erase all data stored on it.
Write protect notch
Sensing hole
3.5” 1.44MB High Density Floppy Disk