Seagate ST31055N/W/WC, ST31051N/W/WC, ST32151N/W/WC 34Hawk 2XL Family Installation Guide, Rev. C

34Hawk 2XL Family Installation Guide, Rev. C

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Caution. Do not try to change the partitions set up for an ex- isting in-use drive. If you change any partitions or logical (simulated) drive assignments on your exist- ing drive, you will lose all data stored. Always backup the existing drive's data on diskettes, tape, or other media before changing the drive's configuration.

The first hard drive (drive jumpered as ID 0) is always called drive C. If you already have a hard drive, FDISK shows it as drive C and shows if it has been divided into a primary DOS partition and an extended partition. The extended partition can be divided into several logical drives. FDISK lists these logical drives as D, E, F, etc. The primary DOS partition has the oper- ating system on it (this is the start up or "Boot-up" partition). From the main menu, choose to set "Active" the DOS partition you want to boot from, which is the primary DOS partition.

Many people like to make drive C a few megabytes, devoted almost entirely to the operating system (DOS or other) and little else.

They put other programs on other logical drives, grouped in categories that provide a distribution of data and programs across all logical drives that suits their applications. When sat- isfied with the set up as instructed in the menus presented, reboot the drive.