Barracuda 4LP Installation Guide, Rev. B 35
Formatting the drive
Warning. Formatting a drive erases all user data. Be sure that
you understand this principle before formatting any
hard disc drive. It is not necessary to format a drive
that previously has been used to store data, unless
your intention is to erase all user data.
Note. Seagate is not responsible for lost user data.
1. Turn on DC power.
2. Boot the system from a system floppy disc or from a previ-
ously installed hard disc drive if there is one.
3. Format the disc drive. Barracuda 4LP disc drives are
designed to operate with a variety of operating systems.
Please refer to your system or SCSI controller manual for
information about formatting and setting up the drive. Some
quick desktop system notes are provided below.
Quick reference desktop system notes
Note. Refer to your system or utility manual for detailed instruc-
tions)
• DOS. Set the drive type in CMOS to “

Zero,” “None,”

or “

No

hard drive installed

.” Use FDISK.EXE and FORMAT.EXE. Sys-
tems that have operating system Windows 95 release 950B or
later do not need to partition the drive.
• Macintosh. Use a third-party drive utility (Apple’s HD Setup
utility only works with drives having special Apple firmware).