Seagate ST33221A Product Manual - Page 26

Supported operating systems, Removing the dynamic drive overlay - drivers

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22 Medalist 8641, 6531, 4321 and 3221, Rev. B Supported operating systems The Disk Manager dynamic drive overlay provides support for drives with capacities greater than 528 Mbytes under MS-DOS, Windows 3.x, Windows 95, Windows NT 3.51, Windows NT 3.50 (requires DM upgrade drivers), OS/2 V3.0 (Warp full pack), and OS/2 V2.0-3.0 (requires DM upgrade drivers). Before you install a non-DOS operating system on the drive, install DOS and Disk Manager and make sure that the drive is bootable. Instructions for running the dynamic drive overlay with other operating systems are available in the Disk Manager online manual. Removing the dynamic drive overlay If Disk Manager installs a dynamic drive overlay (DDO) and you do not need this software to access the full capacity of your drive, you can remove the dynamic drive overlay without losing your data. However, you will lose access to the full capacity of your drive unless you have another method for accessing highcapacity drives (see Addressing drive-capacity limitations on page 11). ! Caution. Before you attempt to remove a DDO, make a backup copy of all the data on your hard drive. Also, run CHKDSK, SCANDISK or a third-party equivalent to detect and repair any damaged files before you follow the procedure below. If the DDO migration program encounters a serious file problem or is interrupted by a power loss or hardware failure, the migration will fail and your data will be lost.

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22
Medalist 8641, 6531, 4321 and 3221, Rev. B
Supported operating systems
The Disk Manager dynamic drive overlay provides support for
drives with capacities greater than 528 Mbytes under MS-DOS,
Windows 3.
x,
Windows 95, Windows NT 3.51, Windows NT 3.50
(requires DM upgrade drivers), OS/2 V3.0 (Warp full pack), and
OS/2 V2.0–3.0 (requires DM upgrade drivers).
Before you install a non-DOS operating system on the drive,
install DOS and Disk Manager and make sure that the drive is
bootable. Instructions for running the dynamic drive overlay with
other operating systems are available in the Disk Manager online
manual.
Removing the dynamic drive overlay
If Disk Manager installs a dynamic drive overlay (DDO) and you
do not need this software to access the full capacity of your
drive, you can remove the dynamic drive overlay without losing
your data. However, you will lose access to the full capacity of
your drive unless you have another method for accessing high-
capacity drives (see
Addressing drive-capacity limitations
on
page 11).
Caution.
Before you attempt to remove a DDO, make
a backup copy of all the data on your hard drive. Also,
run CHKDSK, SCANDISK or a third-party equivalent to
detect and repair any damaged files before you follow
the procedure below. If the DDO migration program
encounters a serious file problem or is interrupted by a
power loss or hardware failure, the migration will fail
and
your data will be lost.
!