Resetting The Amiga - Commodore Amiga 500 User Manual

With an optional A I 0 I 0 external 3 .5 inch disk drive (avai lab le from yo ur Amiga
dealer), you eliminate the di sk swapping involved in copying di sks with a si ngle
drive .
When you've made copies of both di sks, put the original in a safe place and use
only the working disks. That way, if yo u lose or damage a working di sk , yo u' ll
be able to make another copy from the original.
To learn about proper care for your disks, see Chapter 9, "Caring for the
Amiga. "
Resetting the Amiga
Before going on, you need to insert the newly copied Workbench disk , then
reset
the Workbench . To reset, make sure the disk drive light is off, hold down the
CTRL key , the Commodore key , and the Amiga key at the same time fo r at least
'half a second , then release the keys . When you reset the Workbench, yo u clear
the Amiga 's
memory
the electronic circuits the Amiga uses to store informa tion
then the Workbench reappears. You ' re back to where you were when yo u first
inserted the Workbench disk .
Two warnings:
NEVER reset the Workbench when a disk drive light on, Resetting when the
light is on may damage the information on the disk.
When you reset the Workbench, any work that has not been saved to disk is
lost. When you begin using the tool s on the Amiga, remember to save yo ur work
before you reset.
Now that you're acquainted with the mouse , menus, and di sk operations , you're
ready to use the Workbench tool s. Chapter 4 starts you working on Workbench
projects, and Chapter 5 covers the many other things you can do with the
Workbench .
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