Seagate 545XE, 275XE manual Partitioning, High-level formatting

10 Medalist XE Family Installation Guide, Rev. A

Partitioning

You must partition the drive into one or more logical drives before you can use it.

Caution. Partitioning or formatting a drive at any level erases all data on it. Before you repartition or reformat your drive, make a backup of your existing files on another disc or media. Seagate assumes no liability if you erase your data.

You can partition a drive as follows:

1.Insert a bootable DOS diskette and boot the computer.

2.At the prompt, type fdisk. Press ENTER to run the FDISK utility.

3.Select create DOS partition or logical DOS drive. Press ENTER. If there are two drives on your system, make sure your selection is for the correct drive.

4.Select create primary DOS partition. Use the maximum avail- able size for your primary partition and make the partition active. This puts the entire drive on one partition and allows the computer to boot (load DOS) from the partition. Press ENTER after every selection.

After you make all the appropriate selections, the computer automatically reboots itself.

High-level formatting

High-level formatting verifies the information written by the low- level format and builds the file allocation table (FAT) that DOS uses to access files on the drive. If you put more than one partition on the drive, you must high-level format each partition. Refer to your DOS reference guide for instruction. Use the DOS FORMAT utility to high-level format the drive as follows:

1.Type the following command at the DOS prompt: format drive: /v /s