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DM Universal Edition User Manual (Essential Boutique)
After typing DM, you will enter the DM interface. If your hard disk is not from IBM, there may be a red box. Just press ENTER directly without paying attention. Then the main menu will appear:
Easy Disk Installation
Advanced Disk Installation
Upgrade Disk Manager
Maintenance Options
View/Print Online Manual
Exit Disk Manager
If your hard disk is not large or you just want to divide one partition, choose Easy Disk Installation. Then the system will let you choose the physical hard disk to be partitioned, then choose whether to format the partition as FAT32, and finally DM will automatically format the hard disk (at this time, DM will require you to insert the system boot floppy disk to copy IO.SYS; MSDOS.SYS; COMMAND.COM to the hard disk so that the hard disk can boot). Finally, restart.
Advanced Disk Installation is the option for advanced setting partitions. After selection, the system first lets you choose the physical hard disk for partitioning, whether to format as FAT32, and then the sub-menu has 3 options. The first 2 are allocated by the system. Generally, we choose the third option Define your own. Then type in the capacity of each partition one by one, and then choose YES for all that follow (during this process, the system will prompt you to insert the system boot disk), and finally restart.
The function of Upgrade Disk Manager is to modify and upgrade the hard disk driver ONTRACKD.SYS in DM according to the physical parameters of your hard disk, and when your hard disk (only for IBM) has a capacity greater than 8.4G and the motherboard BIOS cannot recognize it, load the driver into the hard disk so that the system can recognize the hard disk above 8.4G.
There are many options in Maintenance Options.
The first can make a system emergency boot disk.
The second loads and unloads the dynamic recognition program (that is, the program that makes the system recognize hard disks above 8.4G).
The third is to back up and restore the hard disk master boot record.
The fourth and fifth are to load and unload some relevant drivers.
The sixth is to perform some tests on the hard disk (Note: Some of the tests inside will erase all files on the hard disk, don't test randomly!!!).
The seventh is to display the information of the hard disk.
The eighth is to convert the partition format. Finally, return to the main menu.
View/Print Online Manual mainly has some help information and the master/slave disk jumper setting diagrams of common hard disks. If you are interested, you can read them slowly.
Exit Disk Manager is to exit DM. Don't you even understand this English?
I. About "Universal Edition"
DM is an old hard disk management tool developed by ONTRACK Company. In actual use, it is mainly used for hard disk initialization, such as low-level formatting, partitioning, high-level formatting, and system installation. It is loved by users because of its powerful functions and extremely fast installation speed. But because hard disks of various brands have their special internal formats, the DM software developed for different hard disks cannot be universal, which brings inconvenience to users. The DM Universal Edition completely lifts this restriction. It can make the IBM DM software be used for hard disks of any manufacturer. This is undoubtedly a happy thing for users who like this software.
The DM Universal Edition is composed of two parts. One part is the original IBM-DM software, and the other part is a partner program (DM Partner) DM.COM specially developed for this software. That is to say, the DM Universal Edition is actually DM with a partner program, also known as DM&P (Disk Manager&Partner). If you have the IBM-DM software (must be version 9.43), you just need to copy this partner program DM.COM.
II. Main Functions
1. Provide two installation modes: simple and advanced to meet various requirements of different users. The simple mode is suitable for primary users, and the advanced mode is mainly designed for advanced users.
2. Completely support the FAT32 file system. You can format a drive larger than 2GB in one partition. When using the advanced installation mode, you can change the cluster size of the hard disk.
3. Break through the 8.4GB limit. When installing an IDE/ATA drive larger than 8.4