Formatting Diskettes With One Diskette Drive
(No Hard Disk)
If your computer has only one diskette drive and no hard disk,
follow this procedure to format a diskette:
1.
Insert the working copy of your MS-DOS Startup diskette
in drive A.
2. When you see the
A>
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.
Remove the MS-DOS Startup diskette from the diskette
drive. insert the diskette you want to format into drive A
and press
Enter.
4. When the diskette is formatted, you see a message similar
to this:
Format complete
362496 bytes total disk space
362496 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.
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