Computer Drive - Hard Disk Drive User Manual

Medalist 17240, 13030, 10231, 8420 and 4310, Rev. B 29
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If Disk Manager has installed the DDO on your hard drive and
you have booted directly from a diskette, the information in the
boot record for the drive may not have been loaded. Make sure
there is no diskette in drive A and reboot. If you want to boot
from the diskette, follow the “Booting with a Diskette” instruc-
tions under “Advanced Disk Manager Options” on page 21.
The dealer partitioned and formatted the drive for you in the
store, but the drive does not respond when you install it.
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Reboot the computer and make sure the drive spins up. Check
all cables.
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Make sure the power supply is adequate for system needs.
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Make sure the DOS or Windows version the dealer used to
partition and format the drive is the same version you have
installed in your computer. If it isn’t, see your dealer.
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Verify the drive-type values in the system setup program. You
must install the drive using the same drive-type values your
dealer used to partition the drive.
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Check for I/O address conflicts between peripheral cards.
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Check for viruses.
The system hangs in FDISK or fails to create or save the
partition record.
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Check all cables.
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Your setup system diskette may be corrupt. Try using a backup
diskette.
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Make the partitions smaller.
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Change the interrupt jumper setting on the host adapter.