•Parallel port

•Two universal serial bus (USB) ports

•Audio-out jack

•AGP video port

•Network connector

•External SCSI connector.

Drives

The standard configuration for your computer includes a 1.44-MB 3.5-inch diskette drive, a hard drive, and a CD-ROM drive. You can install up to seven additional drives (depending on drive height) in the computer.

Two IDE controllers and a diskette controller are integrated into the system board. A SCSI controller card is also included as a standard feature. For instructions on installing drives, see the “Installing Components” chapter in the Maintaining and Troubleshooting Your E-5250 System guide.

The first 2 gigabytes (GB) of the hard drive shipped with your Windows NT computer are partitioned as file allocation table (FAT)16. The rest of the space on the drive is partitioned as NT file system (NTFS). Any other hard drives shipped from the factory with your computer are partitioned as NTFS.

FAT16 and NTFS are different methods that the operating system uses to organize and keep track of files on a hard drive. Your hard drive is divided into both types of partitions to support your 16-bit software and your 32-bit software.

FAT16 supports the older 16-bit software and is limited to partitions of 2 GB or less. NTFS supports 32-bit software and large drive sizes. Unlike FAT16 partitions, NTFS partitions cannot be viewed with Microsoft® disk operating system (MS-DOS®) diagnostic utilities, such as fdisk. See your Windows NT manual for more information on NTFS.

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