Powerbook 150 wont recognize floppy disc

I inserted a windows (dos)formatted floppy disc into my newly acquired powerbook 150, it does not show on the desktop and I cannot eject it anymore. Any suggestions appreciated.

A DOS-formatted floppy does not appear on the Desktop without a PC Exchange control panel (part of System 7.5) installed and active.
The standard way of ejecting a floppy disk is to drag its icon to the Wastebasket (Trash). One can also eject a disk via the Put Away command in the File menu. Do not use the Eject Disk command in the Special menu, unless you wish to swap floppies (only for certain purposes).
Normally, an inserted floppy should come out when the computer is switched off.
In case of a problem, it is possible to manually eject a diskette by means of a straightened paper clip. See chapter 9 in the 030-5538 manual here for details.
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When you see the # Command prompt, type /sbin/fsck-fy and hit the Return.
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Hi,
First of all, in order to verify whether the 7.5.3 system software files are of the type earlier downloadable from Apple (with one large image file split onto floppy-sized segments), could you confirm that the first of the eighteen files has a file name with ".smi" at the end (before .bin or .hqx), and that the remaining seventeen files each include ".part"? The US version had totally nineteen files (one. smi and eighteen .part), but as I indicated above, this was different depending on language version.
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