How to Copy/Move a File from the Hard
Drive to the Floppy Drive
It is generally a good idea to download
a file to the hard drive first and then
copy it to the floppy drive, rather than
download the file directly from the
internet onto the floppy. To copy the
file, open Windows Explorer, then
navigate to where the file was
downloaded by clicking once on its drive
and/or folder in the left pane. You
should see the file itself in the right
pane. Drag and drop the file from the
right pane to the icon depicting the A:
drive in the left pane. The file is now
copied. (In Windows, if you see a box
with two or more distinct sections in
it, those sections are called panes, as
in window panes.)
Another way to copy a file to the floppy
is to right-click once on the file and
choose Send To, then 3½ Floppy (A).
If you don't want to copy but rather
want to move
the file, drag and drop while holding
down the right
mouse button. After you let go of the
mouse button, you'll be presented with
options to Copy, Move, or Create
Shortcut. (Patrons should avoid creating
shortcuts on their floppy drives if the
shortcuts refer to files located on the
hard drive; when they take their
floppies home, their computer will
complain that it can't find the file
that their floppy's shortcut refers to
-- because the file's on
our
computer's hard drive!) Moving a file is
the same copying the file from place A
to place B and then deleting it from
place A.
The Zip Disk drive (B:) cannot be used
with regular floppy disks.
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