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www.dell.com | support.dell.com Drive Problems NOTE: For information on saving files to a floppy disk, see the Tell Me How help file. To access the help file, see page 94. If you cannot save a file to a floppy drive E N S U R E T H A T W I N D O W S ® R E C O G N I Z E S T H E D R I V E - Click the Start button and click My Computer. If the drive is not listed, perform a full scan with your antivirus software to check for and remove viruses. Viruses can sometimes prevent Windows from recognizing the drive. Insert a bootable disk and restart the computer. Verify that the light is blinking, indicating normal operation. E N S U R E T H A T T H E D I S K I S N O T W R I T E - P R O T E C T E D - You cannot save data to a write-protected disk. See the following figure. back of floppy disk write-protected not write-protected TR Y A N O T H E R F L O P P Y D I S K - Insert another disk to eliminate the possibility that the original disk is defective. 98 So l vi n g Pro b l em s