User manual MAXTOR MEDIALIST 720 INSTALLATION

[. . . ] Medalist 720 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Medalist 1080 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ATA Interface Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Installation Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Contents Read before you begin. . . Free installation software on the hard disc . Quick software transfer for experienced users FCC and agency compliance . [. . . ] Refer to your DOS reference guide for instructions. Use the DOS FORMAT utility to high-level format the drive as follows: 1. Type the following command at the DOS prompt: format drive: /v /s drive: designates the drive you are formatting. If you are formatting the boot drive or if your system contains only one drive, type c:. / v tells the computer to create a volume label for the partition after it is formatted. Labeling can prevent someone from accidentally deleting the partition and losing your data. /s tells the computer to copy the necessary system files to the drive to make it bootable. When the computer prompts you for a volume label, type any valid name you want to designate the drive. Using the installation software The EZ-Drive installation software allows your computer to access your Seagate drive's full format capacity. It works by bypassing the BIOS during the boot sequence and using information it creates on Drive C to identify the drive before DOS is loaded. During the installation, EZ-Drive: · Determines how many drives are installed · Sets the drive type in System Setup so that the computer knows the drive is available · Modifies the Drive C boot record with the new drive's translation geometry Medalist 720 and 1080 Installation Guide, Rev. B 17 · Partitions and formats the new drive · Copies the boot files to the new drive if it is Drive C · Enables Maximum Overdrive, which enables read/write multiple in drives that have this feature. The Change Installed Features option that appears in the dialog box when the format is complete allows you to disable Maximum Overdrive. EZ-Drive is easy and safe to use and versatile. If you already have a drive installed, EZ-Drive will not alter its format and files unless you instruct it to override the partition and format. You can choose a fully automatic installation that establishes one partition and quick formats the drive or a custom installation that lets you set multiple partitions of equal size (see page 19 for instructions on creating multiple partitions of unequal size). You can choose a full format and other options. You must have DOS 4. 0 or later to use EZ-Drive. It works in most computers but does not support: · Toshiba laptops, XT or Micro Channel computers · Some Local Bus adapters that use 32-bit mode · Some systems that have PIO mode 3 or 4 active · OS/2 and NT above 528 Mbytes Caution. Because EZ-Drive uses about 4 Kbytes of conventional memory, some older virus-detection programs may misidentify EZ-Drive as a virus. If all 640 Kbytes of conventional memory are not free when these virus programs inspect conventional memory, they assume a virus is present and clean and restore the memory. If this happens, information about the EZ-Drive installed drive is destroyed and the drive cannot be identified by the computer. The Seagate version of EZ-Drive cannot install a non-Seagate drive without a Seagate drive present. 18 Medalist 720 and 1080 Installation Guide, Rev. [. . . ] · Download software for installing and analyzing your drive. It supports communications up to 9, 600 baud. Set your communications software to eight data bits, no parity and one stop bit (8-N-1). SeaBOARD phone numbers are listed in the following table. [. . . ]