Floppy Disk Drive; Connecting The External Floppy Drive; Figure 2-1. 3.5-Inch Diskette - HP Compaq Presario,Presario 80XL201 User Manual

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In this Chapter

Floppy Disk Drive, 2-1

Hard Disk Drive, 2-3
CD/DVD/CD-RW Drive, 2-3
Keyboard, 2-4
Touchpad, 2-8
Introducing Power
Management, 2-10
Taking Care of Your Notebook,
2-11
My Presario – Getting Started
This chapter gives operating basics on the notebook's components
such as the floppy disk drive, hard disk drive, CD-ROM drive,
keyboard, and touchpad. It also introduces Power Management and
gives you tips in care and maintenance.
Floppy Disk Drive
Your notebook comes with an external floppy disk drive designated
as drive A. The external floppy disk drive allows you to load new
programs into your notebook, or to store data on a removable
diskette so you can transfer data from one computer to another.
This disk drive is compatible with either double- density (2DD) 720KB
diskettes or high-density (2HD) 1.44MB diskettes. Notice that both
types of diskettes have an arrow imprinted on the front upper left
corner, and a slidable write-protect tab on the bottom left corner, as
illustrated above. When slid downward, the write-protect tab prevents
data from being written to, or erased from, the diskette.

Connecting the External Floppy Drive

To use the floppy disk drive, connect the data cable of the drive to
any one of the USB port on the left side of your notebook (See Figure
2-2 !). Since
USB connections allow hot-swapping, you can directly connect and
disconnect the drive without turning off your notebook.

Figure 2-1. 3.5-inch Diskette

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