Seagate ST9300 Series Installation Manual page 15

ST9300 Family Installation Guide, Rev. A
• Check the power supply.
• Check your DOS version. Call your dealer to make sure the
DOS version the dealer used to partition and high-level format
the drive is the same as the version you have installed on your
computer.
• Verify the BIOS drive type. When you run the system setup
program on your computer, you must specify the same BIOS
drive type or translation geometry that the dealer used.
• Check for memory conflicts.
• Check for viruses.
During the FDISK program, you get an error message warn-
ing of an attempt to write to track 0 or to the boot sector; the
message may also suggest that a virus is present.
• This occurs in systems having a virus-protection scheme that
does not allow programs to modify the boot sector of the disc.
See your system manual for details. To avoid the problem, run
the system setup program and turn off the virus-protection option.
Then exit system setup and run the FDISK and FORMAT
programs. After all drive partitions are formatted, use the system
setup program to turn virus protection on again.
During the FDISK program, the computer hangs or fails to
create or save the partition record.
• Check all cables.
• The FDISK program on your DOS utilities diskette may be
corrupted. Try running the program from a different diskette.
• If you are using a version of DOS prior to Version 4.0, make
the drive partitions smaller than 32 Mbytes.
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