Medalist XE Family Installation Guide, Rev. A | 13 |
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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 15 for instruction on creating multiple partitions of unequal size). You can choose a full format and other options.
Note. 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 active
∙OS/2 and NT above 528 Mbytes
Caution. Because EZ-Drive uses about 4 Kbytes of conven- tional 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 in- stalled drive is destroyed and the drive cannot be identified by the computer. Do not use these programs.
Note. The Seagate version of EZ-Drive cannot install a non-Sea- gate drive without a Seagate drive present.
1.Boot your computer with the EZ-Drive diskette. This is a precaution to ensure that the EZ-Drive installation does not conflict with any terminate-and-stay resident (TSR) programs that may be in memory.
Caution. Do not write protect the EZ-Drive diskette. The system must write important information back to the diskette.
