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Formatting

a diskette allows you to use it by providing

predetermined locations for certain files used by MS-DOS.

Once formatted, the disk directory space is created, as well as

additional areas reserved for use by MS-DOS. One of these

areas is the File Allocation Table, or FAT. This part of the

diskette contains a list of all of the files on the disk, and where

they are physically stored on the diskette.

The other area is the system area. On your MS-DOS main

system diskette, this area is occupied by the parts of MS-DOS

that

are copied into your computer’s memory during the start-

up routine. During the start-up procedure, the BIOS program,

stored on the system motherboard, looks at this part of the

diskette to retrieve the active parts of the disk operating

system.

If these MS-DOS routines are not present in the system area of

a diskette, the BIOS cannot start up the computer. This is what

causes the error message:

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Using Floppy Disks

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