Formatting And Partitioning The Drive - Seagate Marathon 420sl Installation Manual

8 Marathon 420sl Installation Guide, August 1995

Formatting and partitioning the drive

Caution. Formatting or partitioning a drive that contains data
may destroy all data on the drive. Before repartitioning
or reformatting a drive that contains data, make sure
all data on that drive has been safely backed up.
Seagate Technology assumes no liability for lost data.
Low-level formatting
Seagate ATA Interface drives are low-level formatted at the
factory and do not require additional low-level formatting before
use.
Note. If you are installing only a single drive in your computer,
you can use the DOS program SETUP.EXE (supplied with
MS-DOS 5.0 and above) to partition and format the drive.
See your DOS manual for details. After you successfully
run SETUP.EXE, your drive will be ready to use, and you
can skip the partitioning and formatting steps below.
Partitioning
The partitioning process subdivides a single disc drive into
partitions that behave as separate logical drives (labeled C, D,
E, etc.). You can also set up the entire disc as a single partition.
1. Restart your computer. Boot up the computer using a
diskette that contains DOS system files.
2. Run the FDISK program. Insert a DOS program diskette
containing the FDISK program into your diskette drive. At the
DOS prompt, type fdisk and press
directions on the screen to create one or more partitions. See
your DOS manual for details. If you are partitioning a drive that
will be used to boot the computer, make sure that the primary
partition is marked active.
. Then follow the
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