You canĮvery dang doodle disk you used had to be formatted first.
The second question you’re asked is if you want to “Format another?” Press N. Here you can press Enter for “no volume label.” If you like, you can type something descriptive about the disk, but you’re only limited to 12 characters so, what the heck, just press Enter. When formatting is done, you’ll be asked two questions: The first is to enter a volume label. (The DESQview environment would let you format and do other things it was a multitasking shell available for DOS.) Even Windows back in the day wouldn’t let you do anything else with your computer while you formatted a floppy. The formatting process will take a minute or two, so pick at the spots on your desk for a while.Īlso - and this is bad - you could do nothing else with your PC while you formatted a disk. Yeah, you had to manually close the drive door on a 5 1/4-inch diskette. The computer responds by asking you to insert a diskette in drive A: and press the Enter key put the disk in the drive if you haven’t already.įor a 5 1/4-inch disk drive, close the drive’s door latch after inserting the disk.
So here continues my book’s directions on how to wade through the formatting process: PCs For Dummies 1st Edition came out three years before Windows 95. A USB floppy drive is connected to my PC. (B is the second drive.) Believe it or not, if you attach a USB floppy drive to your PC, it appears as Drive A, as shown in Figure 1.įigure 1. Further, the disks were unreliable and bulky.ĭrive A is still around it’s registered by Windows internally as the first floppy drive. The reason is that the commonly available, highest-capacity floppy disk held about 1.4 megabytes. That’s the word FORMAT, followed by a space, then the letter A (for the A: drive) immediately followed by a colon.Ĭomputers no longer use floppies for storage. If you want to format the disk in your A drive, type the following command: Here are some quotes from that book, which believe-it-or-not is still “in print.” So I’m risking the wrath of my publisher’s attorneys, but I’m just that type of person. One whole chapter in that book was devoted to a topic that doesn’t even resonate today: Formatting a floppy disk.
PCs For Dummies was my second book in the For Dummies series, co-authored with Andy Rathbone (who went on to write Windows For Dummies and, soon after, retire).
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