Epson Equity 386/25 User Manual download pdf (Page 94)

For example, if you enter a command to copy from A to B,

MS-DOS copies from the first diskette you place in the drive

(A) to the computer’s memory. Then MS-DOS prompts you to

insert another diskette (for drive B) and copies from memory to

the new diskette. When copying is complete, you see a prompt

to insert the original diskette (for drive A).

Because you may often swap diskettes this way, it is important

to remember which diskette is which. It is also a good idea to

write-protect your original diskette.

If you have a hard disk and one diskette drive, you can load the

operating system and application programs from the hard disk,

create and store your data there, and use the diskette drive just

for copying data to or from diskettes.

If you have only one diskette drive and no hard disk, you need

to use that drive to load the operating system as well as the

application programs you are using. First load the operating

system; this copies it to the computer’s memory (RAM) so you

do not need to leave the system diskette in the drive. Then you

can remove that diskette and insert the program diskette you

want to use, and load that into memory too. See your

application program manual for detailed instructions.

Using Two Diskette Drives

If you have two diskette drives, you can use the top drive (A)

for loading the operating system and application programs and

the second drive (B) for creating data. If you have a hard disk,

you will probably need the diskette drives just to copy files to

and from the hard disk and to copy diskettes.

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