40 MB Internal Hard Drive  (250-4061)  Initialize      Faxback Doc. # 4974

INITIALIZATION INSTRUCTIONS

The 40 MB Internal Hard Disk Drive is a non-standard drive (as defined on
page 29 of the Tandy 3000 Operation and Installation Manual). Use the follow-
ing procedure to initialize your hard disk drive. This procedure is valid
only for the 40 MB Internal Hard Disk Drive. Do not use this procedure for
any other hard disk drive.

1. Boot the Utilities diskette. The utilities menu appears. To choose the
   Setup utility, type: 4 [ENTER].

2. Answer the prompts for your system parameters. When the Setup utility
   prompts you for the drive type of Fixed disk Drive C (D for a secondary
   hard disk drive), type: 11 [ENTER].

3. After you complete the setup, reboot the Utilities diskette. The utilities
   menu re-appears. To choose the Format Hard Disk utility, type: 5 [ENTER].

4. When prompted for the hard disk or D [ENTER] for the secondary hard disk.
   Type Y [ENTER] to continue.

5. When the Format Hard Disk utility displays the hard disk parameters (drive
   type 11,5 heads, 855 cylinders) and asks you whether they are correct,
   type N [ENTER]. When prompted for the correct parameters, enter the number
   of heads and cylinders shown on the "Factory Detected" error map that
   comes with your hard disk drive. Use the default interleave factor.

6. After you correct the parameters and flag any defective tracks, press
   [ENTER] to begin the format.

When the format is complete, you can follow the normal procedure to install
an operating system on your hard disk drive. Refer to your operating system
documentation for instructions.

NOTE: MS-DOS Version 03.20.00 is limited to a maximum hard disk partition
size of 32 MB. To use all 40 megabytes of storage on your hard disk drive,
you must use the MSFORMAT and MLPART commands and the MLPART.SYS device
driver. Refer to the appropriate sections of your Tandy 3000 MS-DOS Reference
Manual for more information.

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