Partitioning And Formatting Your Drive; Low Level Format; Dos, Windows 95, Windows Nt And Os/2 - Seagate Medalist Pro 2160N Installation Manual

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Partitioning and formatting your drive

To prepare your drive for use with any of these operating sys-
tems, you must partition and format your drive. Use your system
setup diskette to automatically take you through the formatting
process.
Caution. Partitioning or formatting a drive erases all
!
data on it. Seagate assumes no liability if you erase
your data.
Low-level format
This drive is low-level formatted at the factory to 512 bytes per
sector. You do not need to low-level format. If necessary, SCSI
host adapters have diagnostic capability for low-level formatting.
Refer to your host adapter manual for diagnostic instructions.

DOS, Windows 95, Windows NT and OS/2

Drive partitioning
Partitioning a hard drive divides it into sections (partitions) that
function as separate logical drives (labeled C,D,E, etc.). In creat-
ing partitions, keep in mind that the larger the partition, the more
drive space is taken up in incomplete sectors. For this reason, if
most of your files are smaller than 50 Kbytes, you should use
partitions of 1 Gbyte or less. To partition your new drive:
1. Insert a bootable DOS diskette into your diskette drive and
restart your computer.
2. Insert a DOS program diskette that has the FDISK.EXE and
FORMAT.COM programs into your diskette drive. At the A:
prompt, type fdisk and press
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