TOPIC This article comprises the Read Me for Drive Setup version 1.7.3. This software was released by Apple on 14 June 1999 and is available for downloading from Apple Software Updates Online. Please see Software Updates Document Number 11303, or use the following URL to access the article directly: http://asu.info.apple.com/swupdates.nsf/artnum/n11303 Description : Drive Setup installs software (called a disk driver) that allows your computer to communicate with the hard disk. Use Drive Setup 1.7.3 to update your disk driver or to reinitialize a disk. When you initialize a disk, all of its contents are erased. Important : Earlier versions of Drive Setup can reintroduce issues resolved with Drive Setup 1.7.3. DISCUSSION
About Drive Setup 1.7.3
At Ease and Drive Setup 1.7.3 If you are using At Ease 4.0, 4.0.1, or 5.0, and wish to update your hard disk driver using Drive Setup 1.7.3, please follow these steps before using Drive Setup 1.7.3. (If you are using At Ease 3.0 or earlier, these steps are not applicable.): Using Drive Setup 1.7.3 to Update a Hard Disk This section describes how to use Drive Setup 1.7.3 to update your hard disk. You may have Drive Setup 1.7.3 on a CD or you may have downloaded Drive Setup 1.7.3 from an Apple Web site. To use Drive Setup 1.7.3 to update your hard disk, follow these steps: 1. Back up your hard disk and turn off any hard disk security software. Using Drive Setup to update a hard disk driver with security software turned on may cause problems. Important: Apple strongly recommends that you make a copy of the information on your hard disk before you update the disk using Drive Setup. 2. Insert your system software CD in the CD-ROM drive and restart your computer using the CD. To learn how to start up your computer using a system CD, see the user's manual that came with your computer. 3. Locate Disk First Aid on the CD and open the program. 4. Select your hard disk and click Repair. Disk First Aid checks your hard disk and repairs problems it finds. For more information about Disk First Aid, see the user's manual that came with your computer. 5. When you're finished, quit Disk First Aid and restart your computer. 6. When your computer restarts, eject the system CD and use Drive Setup 1.7.3 as follows. 7. Open Drive Setup 1.7.3. Warning! When Drive Setup opens, do not click Initialize. Doing so erases all the information on your hard disk. 8. Select your hard disk in the List of Drives list. 9. Choose Update Driver from the Functions menu. Important: If Update Driver is not available, your hard disk may be protected by security software. See the manual that came with the software to learn how to turn off security while you update the disk. 10. Click OK when a message appears telling you that you must restart your computer. 11. Quit Drive Setup when you see the message, "Driver update was successful." 12. In the Finder, choose Restart from the Special menu. If you have problems or Drive Setup fails to update the disk, see the troubleshooting chapter in the user's manual that came with your computer. Important: If your computer has one or more previous versions of Drive Setup on the hard disk, Apple recommends that you replace these older version(s) of Drive Setup with version 1.7.3 of Drive Setup. Recovering From Disk Problems If, when you start up your computer using a system software CD, you see a message asking you to initialize your hard disk, do not click Initialize. It may be possible to recover the hard disk using Disk First Aid or another disk utility. To learn how to use Disk First Aid, see the troubleshooting chapter in the user's manual that came with your computer. If you are using another disk utility, see the manual that came with the software. Initializing Your Hard Disk If you need to initialize your hard disk, see the user's manual that came with your computer or the system software CD you are using to learn how to do so. When you are finished initializing and installing system software on your hard disk, use Drive Setup 1.7.3 to update your hard disk. See "Using Drive Setup 1.7.3 to Update a Hard Disk" earlier in this document. Tips and Troubleshooting Update Driver command is dimmed If the Update Driver command is dimmed, the desired disk is either not supported, or it's previously been updated with a non-Apple utility. If the disk isn't supported, check the instructions that came with your computer or disk to see if the manufacturer includes or recommends a disk utility, and use that utility to update the driver. If you have updated or formatted the disk with a non-Apple utility, you will need to use that utility again to perform the update. To ensure a successful update, obtain the latest version of the utility. Using Drive Setup with Energy Saver Before you use Drive Setup to perform an extended operation, such as testing the disk, open the Energy Saver control panel and select Never for the Hard Disk Sleep option to prevent the hard disk from spinning down before Drive Setup is finished. Manually mounting volumes Drive Setup allows you to partition a hard disk into several volumes when you initialize the disk. You can also select whether or not to mount a volume automatically when you start up your computer by using the "Automount on startup" option. Beginning with Drive Setup 1.3, a more reliable method of mounting volumes automatically is being used, to ensure correct operation with virtual memory. You cannot use a disk utility program (for example, SCSI Probe version 4.3) to mount volumes manually if the program does not support the new way volumes are mounted. However, you can use Drive Setup to mount volumes manually. Reinstalling Additional Software Some computers come with additional software installed. If you want to reinstall this additional software using the "restore" CD that came with your computer, quit Drive Setup before you reinstall the software. Icons will not appear on the desktop if Drive Setup is open when you reinstall the software. Waiting for initialization to complete Sometimes Drive Setup indicates that it has finished initializing a disk when it has not completely finished. Wait for your new volumes to appear in the Finder before continuing. Improvements to Drive Setup (version history) |
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| Sub Category: | Hard Disk Setup Software |
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