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See your Diagnostics and Troubleshooting Guide for information on running the Dell Diagnostics and troubleshooting any problems that may occur.

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EIDE hard-disk drives must be physically formatted, partitioned, and logically format- ted before they can be used to store data. Every hard-disk drive from Dell is physically formatted before it is sent to you.

NOTE: On systems with hard-disk drives larger than 2 gigabytes (GB), create a pri- mary partition of 2 GB and divide the remaining capacity into partitions of 2 GB or less. For example, a system with a 2.5-GB hard-disk drive would have a primary parti- tion of 2 GB (drive C) and a second partition of 500 megabytes (MB) (drive D). Hard-disk drives must be partitioned this way because MS-DOS–based operating sys- tems (including Windows NT when you use a file allocation table [FAT] 16 file system) do not support drive partitions larger than 2 GB.

To partition and logically format your hard-disk drive, use the program(s) offered by your operating system.

For MS-DOS, use the fdisk and format commands to perform these procedures. The fdisk and format commands are described in the MS-DOS reference documentation.

For OS/2, see the discussion on partitioning and logical formatting in the documenta- tion that came with the operating system.

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For Windows NT, see the discussion on partitioning and logical formatting in the docu- mentation that came with the operating system.

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For the UNIX ® operating system, refer to your UNIX documentation.

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