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Partitioning
You must partition the drive into one or more logical drives before
you can use it.
Caution. Partitioning or formatting a drive at any level erases all
data on it. Before you repartition or reformat your drive,
make a backup of your existing files on another disc or
media. Seagate assumes no liability if you erase your
data.
You can partition a drive as follows:
1. Insert a bootable DOS diskette and boot the computer.
2. At the prompt, type fdisk. Press ENTER
to run the FDISK utility.
3. Select
create DOS partition or logical DOS drive
. Press
ENTER
.
If there are two drives on your system, make sure your
selection is for the correct drive.
4. Select
create primary DOS partition
. Use the maximum avail-
able size for your primary partition and make the partition
active. This puts the entire drive on one partition and allows
the computer to boot (load DOS) from the partition. Press
ENTER after every selection.
After you make all the appropriate selections, the computer
automatically reboots itself.
High-level formatting
High-level formatting verifies the information written by the low-
level format and builds the file allocation table (FAT) that DOS
uses to access files on the drive. If you put more than one partition
on the drive, you must high-level format each partition. Refer to
your DOS reference guide for instruction. 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
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