Fujitsu E-6570 manual Formatting the Hard Disk Drive, Modular Hard Disk Drive

Hard Disk Drive

Your Fujitsu LifeBook hard disk drive capacity is depen- dent on which model you are using. Some LifeBooks may also contain a removable hard disk drive in addi- tion to the internal hard disk drive. (See Specifications on page 97 for more information)

FORMATTING THE HARD DISK DRIVE

The internal hard disk drive is formatted, or initialized, at the factory. You do not need to format it under normal circumstances. If you decide to reformat due to corruption or upgrade, please refer to your operating system documentation for the correct procedure.

W A R N I N G

Reformatting the hard disk drive will erase all of the data currently stored on it, including the operating system and installed programs.

Before you reformat your hard disk drive, please note:

■Any data that currently resides on your hard disk drive must be backed-up to floppy disks or other data storage media, or it will be permanently lost. These back-up disks can then be used to reinstall and restore your data. (See your operating system manual for more information on backing-up your data files)

■All application software that is installed on the hard disk drive, must be reinstalled from the original source.

■The factory-installed software, including the operating system, can be restored using the Recovery CD that came with your LifeBook.

MODULAR HARD DISK DRIVE

Your LifeBook may contain a modular hard disk drive in addition to the internal hard disk drive. If your LifeBook has a modular hard disk drive you will need to format the drive before using it.

Formatting the Modular Hard Disk Drive in Windows 98 Second Edition

1.Boot the system. When the Fujitsu logo appears press the [F8] key to bring up the Microsoft Windows Startup Menu.

2.Select option 6 command prompt only, using the arrow key and press [Enter].

3.At the C:> prompt, type Fdisk and press [Enter].

U s e r I n s t a l l a b l e F e a t u r e s

4.You will see a long message appear on the screen. At the bottom of the message you will see the option,

Do you wish to enable large disk support (Y/N)...? [N]. Type Y to change the option in the last statement to yes and press [Enter] to continue.

5.You are now in the FDISK Options menu. Type 5 to select Change Current fixed disk drive and press [Enter].

6.The next Change Current Fixed Disk Drive screen displays info for both Primary (C:) and Secondary (D:) Disks. Type 2 at the Fixed Disk Drive Number and press [Enter].

7.You are now back in the FDISK Options menu for drive D:. Press 4 in the Enter Choice: [ ] field to go to the Display partition information option and press [Enter].

8.If the message No partitions defined appears at the bottom of the Display Partition Infor- mation screen, press [Esc].

9.You are now back in the FDISK Options menu. Press 1 to change the Enter Choice: [ ] field to the Create DOS partition or Logical DOS Drive option (it should already be set to 1 as the default) and press [Enter].

10.Press [Enter] again to select the default setting (#1) Create Primary DOS Partition.

11.Fdisk will verify drive integrity and ask you if you wish to use the maximum available size for Primary DOS Partition. Type Y for Yes. A message appears “Primary DOS partition created, drive letters changed as added.” Press [Esc] to continue. In this case the partition usage will be 100% or 10GB, this number may vary depending on your drive size.

12.You are now back in the FDISK Options menu. Press 4 to display your partitions info.

13.You should see the following in the Create Primary DOS Partition screen:

PartitionStatus TypeVolume Label D:1PRI DOS MbytesSystemUsage 6194*Unknown100%

Primary DOS Partition created

14.Press [Esc] three times to exit the Create Primary DOS Partition screen and FDISK Options menu.

15.Restart your LifeBook. when the Fujitsu logo appears, press the [F8] key to bring up the Microsoft Startup Menu.

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