TANDY 2000 HD  (260-5104)    Floppy Drive Information   Faxback Doc. # 1313

The Floppy Diskette Drive uses special 5-1/4" double-sided, double-density
diskettes to read, write or store data. These are 96TSI soft sector 
diskettes.  The floppy diskettes store approximately 730 Kbytes of data. 

Formatting Diskettes:

The MS-DOS diskette which came with your Computer contains PCMAKER.COM, a 
powerful utility that formats a diskette so that it can be used on an IBM 
PC or XT computer, as well as on the Tandy Model 2000. To enable easy 
access to PCMAKER.COM, use the MS-DOS COPY command to transfer the file to 
your system disk. If you have a floppy disk system, copy it to the MS-DOS 
System Diskette that you use in Drive A. If you have a hard disk system, 
copy it to Drive C. 

Hard Disk Users: It is assumed that you are operating your computer with a
hard disk. If you are not, copy the files to Drive A, and change the drive 
letter as needed when entering the PCMAKER command. After copying PCMAKER 
to your MS-DOS System Diskette, follow these steps to format a Model 
2000/IBM diskette:

Start up your Model 2000 from the disk containing PCMAKER. At the system
prompt, enter the PCMAKER command. Its format is:

        PCMAKER [drive] [/V]

* DRIVE is the drive to contain the diskette to be formatted. It is either
  A: or B:. If you omit the drive specification, PCMAKER formats the 
  diskette in the current drive.
* /V causes PCMAKER to ask you to enter a volume label for the diskette. At
  the label prompt, enter a label (name) that is a maximum of 11 
  characters, or press <ENTER> to bypass the prompt.
    
For example, to format a diskette in Drive B and give it the label
PCFORMDATA1, type:
    
        PCMAKER B: /V <ENTER>
    
After you enter the command, PCMAKER displays:
    
        INSERT NEW DISKETTE FOR DRIVE B:
        AND STRIKE ANY KEY WHEN READY
    
Insert the diskette to be formatted, and press the space bar. At the volume
label prompt, type PCFORMDATA1 <ENTER>. PCMAKER formats the diskette. 

After PCMAKER finishes formatting, you can use the diskette interchangeably
on the Tandy Model 2000 HD and the IBM PC and XT computers.

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