Seagate 1080SL, 851SL, 540SL, 1270SL manual Booting with a diskette after EZ-Drive is installed

18 Medalist SL Family Installation Guide, November 1995

Booting with a diskette after EZ-Drive is installed

When you boot with a diskette, you must allow the EZ-Drive information about the drive to load into memory before the system information on the diskette loads. The diskette accesses the BIOS directly, which does not recognize the EZ-Drive-installed drive. 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 Drive A.

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.

2.Insert a bootable diskette that contains the FDISK and FOR- MAT programs into Drive A and change the prompt.

3.Type fdisk.

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. Option 5 allows you to select the drive you want to use.