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Epson EQUITY 3865X/20 PLUS User Manual

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Many hard disk drives, including all Epson drives, automatically

park their heads when you turn off the computer. If your hard

disk drive does not do this, or if you are not sure that it does, be

sure to run HDSIT.

Follow these steps to run HDSIT:

1.

2.

Exit any program you are using and make sure the MS-DOS
command prompt appears on the screen.

If you copied HDSIT to your hard disk (as described at the

beginning of this chapter), log onto the directory of the hard

disk that contains the HDSIT files.

If you did not copy HDSIT to your hard disk, insert the

Reference diskette in drive A. Then type

A: and

press

Enter to

log onto that drive.

3.

Type the following and press

Enter:

H D S I T

You see a message on the screen that tells you the disk drive’s

read/write heads will remain locked until you reset the computer
or turn the power off and on again The computer locks the
heads and disables the keyboard. Remove any diskettes and turn
off the computer. You are now ready to move it to the new

location.

Note

If your computer came with a

diskette drive and you

still have the original diskette drive protector card, you may
want to insert it into the drive prior to shipping your

computer to protect the read/write heads.

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