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Format, Vol, and Label Command Activity

FORMAT, VOL, AND LABEL COMMAND ACTIVITY

In this activity, place a blank disk in drive A (or drive B if you are using a floppy disk system). In this activity and others, use B in place of A if you are using a two-drive floppy system. Your DOS disk should be located in drive A on a floppy system.
 
1. Type FORMAT A:/S and press Enter. Notice the following display.

Insert new diskette for drive A:
 
and press ENTER when ready...
 
2. Insert the disk to be formatted and press Enter to start the disk formatting process; notice a "Formatting..." display. It may include the Head and Cylinder location if you have DOS version 3.10 or later.

 
3. Wait until the following message is displayed.

 Format complete
 
System transferred
 xxxxxx bytes total disk space
 
   xxxxx  byte used by system
 
 xxxxxx bytes available on disk

Format another (Y/N)? 

4. Type N to re display the system prompt.
 
5. Type LABEL A: NEWNAME and press Enter.
 
6. Check the new volume label name by typing VOL A: and pressing Enter. Notice the display: "Volume in drive A is NEWNAME. "

7. Delete the volume label by typing LABEL A: and pressing Enter. Notice the prompt:
                           
  Volume in drive A is NEWNAME
                            Volume label (11 characters, ENTER for none)? _ 

8. Press  Enter and notice the following prompt:

Delete current volume label (Y/N) _
 
9. Type  Y and press Enter to delete the voulme label.
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