How to Prevent Overwriting of a Diskette

You can physically protect a diskette (write-protect it) so that data cannot be erased or overwritten. Once you have write-protected a diskette, additional information cannot be saved on it. When you no longer want to protect the information on a diskette, you can change it back to write-enable status and once again write and store information on it.

What to Do

1. Turn the diskette upside-down and find the write-protect tab.

2. Move the tab toward the diskette's edge until you can see through the notch.

   Use a ballpoint pen or other implement. When you can see through the notch, the diskette is write-protected.

   Figure 11-1  

   
   

What Next

If you want to change the diskette to write-enable status, see:

• "How to Allow Writing to a Diskette"