Promise Technology EX4650, EX8658, EX8654, EX8650 manual Appendix a Partition and Format

Appendix A: Partition and Format

In order for your operating system to recognize and work with the physical drives attached to your SuperTrak EX Controller card, the drives must be partitioned and formatted.

•If your drives were previously partitioned and formatted they are ready to use and you can skip this procedure

•If your drives have not been partitioned and formatted, you must do that job before you can use them

The actions of partitioning and formatting create a file structure on the physical drives with which your operating system can work. In the example below, we show how this is done in Windows. A similar procedure is required for Linux PCs. However, partitioning and formatting in Linux is not automated, therefore please refer to your system documentation for the exact procedure.

Note

If you plan to boot your computer from this logical drive, you will perform partitioning and formatting during the OS installation. The instructions here are for data logical drives only.

1.From the desktop, right-click the My Computer icon and choose Manage from the popup menu. The Computer Management window opens.

2.From the left menu, click Disk Management. The Disk Management window opens with your new logical disk identified as Disk 1. The Initialize Wizard appears automatically.

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