to create and use a diskette, you must add a diskette drive to your computer. to enable a usb diskette drive to work, you must disable the legacy diskette drive function in the configuration/setup utility program (click devices and i/o ports → disable legacy diskette a).

    the ibm enhanced diagnostics diskette is a self-starting diagnostics diskette that you can use to test hardware components in your computer. you can create an ibm enhanced diagnostics diskette from the product recovery program or from the world wide web.

    complete the following steps to create an ibm enhanced diagnostics diskette from the product recovery program partition:

    1. restart the computer and watch the monitor.

    2. when the message to start the product recovery program, press f11 appears, quickly press f11.

    3. select system utilities.

    4. select create ibm enhanced diagnostics diskette.

    5. follow the instructions on the screen.

    complete the following steps to create an ibm enhanced diagnostics diskette from the world wide web:

    1. go to http://www.ibm.com.

    2. click support & downloads.

    3. click search technical support.

    4. in the enter keyword(s) field, type diagnostics 6224, and click submit.

    5. from the “search results” page, click the enhanced diagnostics item for your computer.

    6. on the next page, click the executable file for the enhanced diagnostics code to download it (be sure to download the file to a hard disk directory and not to a diskette). you can click the text file to display the readme file.

    7. at a command prompt, change to the directory where the file was downloaded.

    8. insert a blank, high-density diskette into the diskette drive.

    9. type filename a: where filename is the name of the file you downloaded and a is the drive letter of the diskette drive; then, press enter.

    the downloaded file is self-extracting and is copied to the diskette. when the copy is completed, store the diskette in a safe place.

    for more information, see “using the ibm enhanced diagnostics diskette” on page 95.