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C-6 Frequently Asked Questions
What type of diskette do I use in my diskette drive?
Some systems ship with a 1.44-megabyte (MB) diskette drive that uses
3.5-inch high density (HD) diskettes. These diskettes are also called double-sided,
high-density (DSHD) diskettes. You can store 1.44 MB of information on these
diskettes.
Your diskette drive can also use 3.5-inch double-sided, double-density (DSDD)
diskettes. These diskettes only hold 720 kilobytes of data - about half the amount of
data that 1.44-MB diskettes hold.
Some systems ship with the SuperDisk™ drive that uses 120-MB diskettes. You can
store up to 120-MB of information on these diskettes. The SuperDisk drive is backward
compatible and uses 720-KB and 1.44-MB diskettes.
Booting
What is the difference between a warm boot and a cold boot?
A warm boot restarts the system while system power is on. A warm boot
is also a software reset. A warm boot clears volatile system memory and reloads the
operating system.
In Windows, go to Start, Shut Down, Restart the computer. In DOS mode, press Ctrl ,
Alt
, and
Del
to warm boot the system.
A cold boot is a system start with power off. A cold boot also resets the hardware. It
checks the hardware and reloads the operating system.
To perform a cold boot, go to Start, Shut Down, to shut down the computer. If power is
on, turn the power off using the system unit Power button, wait at least five seconds,
and then turn the power on.