Adaptec APA-1350 manual Formatting your hard disk drives in Windows

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Troubleshooting

Formatting your hard disk drives in Windows 95

If a hard disk drive is used that has not been formatted for Windows 95 systems, you will need to prepare the Disk for its first use with the FDISK and FORMAT commands in the DOS directory of your system disk. Before you can use these commands you must enable Int 13 support for the drive.

Follow these steps to enable Int 13 support:

1Go to the Control Panel.

2Double-click on the System icon.

3Click on the Device Manager tab.

4Double-click on Disk drives.

5Double-click on the icon for the Disk attached to your MiniSCSI 1350.

6Click on the Settings tab.

7Click on the Int 13 Unit field in the Options section.

8Reboot for the change to take effect.

Once you have completed initialization of the disk, you can repeat the above procedure to disable the Int 13 support of your Disk. This may improve performance.

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