OpenWindows User's Guide

Reformatting a Floppy Disk

If you are using a diskette for the first time or if you want to format your diskette, perform the following steps.

  1. Insert the floppy disk.

  2. Select Check For Floppy from the File Menu.


    Note -

    If you inserted a correctly formatted disk, you see the window on the WorkSpace as shown in Figure 2-48.


    If the diskette is not formatted, you see the window in Figure 2-51.

  3. Choose Format Floppy from the File menu.

    Make sure the floppy window is active.

    Figure 2-51 The Floppy Format Disk Window

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    If you choose to Format the disk, this is your last chance to Cancel.

  4. Click Format Disk.

    When the initialization has been complete, you see the File Manager window on the WorkSpace as shown in Figure 2-48.