Appendix C How to use Disk Administrator provided with Windows NT

C-1. Outline of Disk Administrator

The Disk Administrator is a graphic tool for administrating the disk resources.

Outline of operations which the Disk Administrator can perform

O Volumes can be formatted and labeled.

O The partition sizes, additional partitions, blank areas which can be used to create the striping sets, and other disk-related status information can be read.

O The allocation of the drive names, volume labels, file system types and sizes and other Windows NT volume-related status information can be read.

C-2. How to start up Disk Administrator

1.From the [Start] menu, select and click [Programs] 5 [Administrative Tools] 5 [Disk Administrator].

<Respond to messages until Disk Administrator starts up>

2.“System configuration will be automatically updated to reflect these changes when you next opt to save changes when exiting Disk Administrator.”

:[OK]

3.“System configuration will now be updated.” : [OK]

4.“Do you want to write a signature on Disk XX so that Disk Administrator can access the drive?”

:[Yes]

5.The Disk Administrator now starts up, and the dialog box shown in Fig. 1 appears on the screen. (The display may vary slightly, depending on the changes made to the disc capacity, etc.)

Fig. 1 Disk Administrator dialog box

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