Installing the Drive

If you are having problems with a newly-installed drive, check the following:

1.If your dealer installed the drive, consult that person about the problem.

2.If you installed the hard disk in your computer yourself, did you carefully follow all the instructions in Chapter 5 of this manual? Review the instructions and check all the cable connections to make sure you have installed it correctly. Also check the jumper settings on your drive to make sure they are set correctly.

3.If you installed a hard disk drive and connected it to the hard disk drive connector on the main system board, did you run SETUP to update the computer’s configuration information? Check to make sure you chose the correct drive type, and that the FDD option is set to Enabled. See Chapter 2 of the Setup Guide for instructions.

4.If you installed a non-Epson hard disk drive, was it physically formatted by the manufacturer? A blank, new hard disk must be formatted (or initialized) before you can partition it and install an operating system on it. This type of format is usually done by the manufacturer; if yours was not, you must do it yourself. If the drive came with its own format utility, use that program; if not, follow the instructions in Appendix B under “Hard Disk Format.”

Note that this physical type of format is different from the software-based type of formatting commands (such as the MS-DOS SELECT or FORMAT commands). See “Preparing the Drive,” below, for more information.

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