Caring for Diskettes and Diskette Drives
Follow these basic precautions to protect your diskettes and
avoid losing data:
Remove all diskettes before you turn off the computer.
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.
Keep diskettes in a moderate environment.
Don’t leave them sitting in the sun or in
extreme cold or heat because this can destroy
the data.
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.
Keep diskettes away from magnetic fields,
such as those generated by electrical
appliances, telephones, and loudspeakers.
(Diskettes store information magnetically.)
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