Inserting a Disk

When you have selected all your options, click on the button labeled `OK'. You will be given a box and asked to insert a disk. NEVER TAKE OUT OR INSERT A DISK UNLESS YOU SEE THIS BOX OR The Vault TELLS YOU THAT IT HAS FINISHED BY DISPLAYING AN ALERT BOX! You should now insert the disk requested by The Vault into either drive A or B. Check the appropriate drive box to tell The Vault which drive you are using.

If the disk needs formatting, check the `Format' box. If the disk is already formatted but you want to clear it, click the `Clear Disk' box. If you want to append to a disk already written by the Vault, check the `Append' box. Normally when you do a full backup, you will want to clear the disk, but the first time you use the disk, you must of course format it.

The `Dual Drive' option is useful if you have two floppy drives and your disks are already formatted. (This is usually the case; you only have to format disks once.) If it is selected, The Vault starts by writing a disk in the drive you told it to above. When it is done writing that disk, it will look in the other drive for the next disk it expects. If it finds this disk, it will go on and write it; otherwise, it comes back to the `Insert Disk' dialog box being described here, asking you to insert an appropriate disk. Similarly, when The Vault is done writing to the second drive, it looks in the first drive again. If when The Vault is writing in one drive, you put an appropriate disk in the other, The Vault could write continuously, never waiting for a disk change!

The Vault will never format a disk automatically in dual mode, even if the format option is selected, because formatting tells The Vault to not look at disk labels, but to go ahead and clear whatever disk is in the drive. This could be dangerous when done automatically; if this option were in The Vault and the user put two disks in the two drives, The Vault would go ahead and write disk 1, then disk 2, then overwrite disk 3 onto disk 1, disk 4 onto disk 2, disk 5 onto disk 3, and so on.

The `Save Defaults' button shown in this box works exactly the same way as the `Save Defaults' option from the main menu, described in section [*]. When you are done selecting the options for this box, click on `OK'.


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