Acer AcerPower Sc Power Sc User's Guide - Page 27

Acer AcerPower Sc Manual

Page 27 highlights

17 Disk drives Your computer comes with the following disk drives. 3.5-inch floppy disk drive Your computer's 3.5-inch floppy disk drive can handle 720-KB and 1.44MB capacity diskettes. The floppy diskettes are compact, lightweight, and easy to carry around. Here are some tips on how to take care of your diskettes Always make backup copies of the diskettes that contain important data or program files. Keep diskettes away from magnetic fields and sources of heat. Avoid removing a diskette from a drive when the floppy drive activity light is on. Write-protect your diskettes to prevent accidental erasure. To do this, slide the write-protect tab to the write-protect position. 1-Write-protected 2-Not write-protected • When you put a label on a 3.5-inch diskette, make sure that the label is properly attached (flat on the surface) and within the labeling area (area with a slight surface depression) on the diskette. An improperly attached label may cause a diskette to get stuck in a drive when you are inserting or removing it. CD-ROM drive Your CD-ROM drive, located on the front panel of your computer, allows you to play different types of Compact Discs (CDs). CDs, like diskettes, are also compact, lightweight, and easy to carry around.

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9
  • 10
  • 11
  • 12
  • 13
  • 14
  • 15
  • 16
  • 17
  • 18
  • 19
  • 20
  • 21
  • 22
  • 23
  • 24
  • 25
  • 26
  • 27
  • 28
  • 29
  • 30
  • 31
  • 32
  • 33
  • 34
  • 35
  • 36
  • 37
  • 38
  • 39
  • 40
  • 41
  • 42
  • 43
  • 44
  • 45
  • 46
  • 47
  • 48
  • 49
  • 50
  • 51
  • 52
  • 53
  • 54
  • 55
  • 56
  • 57
  • 58
  • 59
  • 60
  • 61
  • 62
  • 63
  • 64
  • 65
  • 66
  • 67
  • 68

17
Disk drives
Your computer comes with the following disk drives.
3.5-inch floppy disk drive
Your computer’s 3.5-inch floppy disk drive can handle 720-KB and 1.44-
MB capacity diskettes.
The floppy diskettes are compact, lightweight, and easy to carry
around. Here are some tips on how to take care of your diskettes:
Always make backup copies of the diskettes that contain
important data or program files.
Keep diskettes away from magnetic fields and sources of heat.
Avoid removing a diskette from a drive when the floppy drive
activity light is on.
Write-protect your diskettes to prevent accidental erasure.
To do
this, slide the write-protect tab to the write-protect position.
When you put a label on a 3.5-inch diskette, make sure that the
label is properly attached (flat on the surface) and within the
labeling area (area with a slight surface depression) on the
diskette.
An improperly attached label may cause a diskette to get
stuck in a drive when you are inserting or removing it.
CD-ROM drive
Your CD-ROM drive, located on the front panel of your computer,
allows you to play different types of Compact Discs (CDs).
CDs, like
diskettes, are also compact, lightweight, and easy to carry around.
1-Write-protected
2-Not write-protected