Seagate 275XE Booting with a diskette after EZ-Drive is installed, Installing multiple partitions

Medalist XE Family Installation Guide, Rev. A 15

Booting with a diskette after EZ-Drive is installed

To boot your computer with a diskette:

1.Boot the computer with the diskette-drive door open.

2.Press the CTRL key when the following message appears near the end of the boot sequence:

Hold the CTRL key down to boot from a floppy

3.Insert the boot diskette. The computer boots to the diskette drive.

Installing multiple partitions

The custom installation option in the installation menu allows you to create up to nine partitions of equal size on the drive. To create partitions of unequal size on your EZ-Drive installed drive, use the FDISK and format commands on a DOS diskette. Refer to your DOS manual if you need assistance deleting, creating and formatting partitions. This instruction assumes you have already installed the drive with EZ-Drive.

1.Boot your computer from Drive C. If the EZ-Drive banner does not appear, the EZ-Drive installed drive is not recognized.

2.Insert the DOS diskette into the diskette drive and change the prompt.

3.Type fdisk.

4.Delete the Primary partition from the EZ-Drive installed drive.

Caution. If you have two drives, be sure you choose the correct drive before deleting the partition. Deleting the partition erases everything on the drive.

Note. EZ-Drive puts a volume label on the partition it creates. You must enter the label to delete the partition.

5.Repartition the drive with the partitions in the sizes you want. Refer to your DOS manual if you need assistance creating extended partitions. Remember to make the primary partition active for Drive C.