Installing the drive, C-16 – Epson EQUITY 386/33 PLUS User Manual

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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.

C-16 Troubleshooting

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