Reinstallation of the Software

Creating an Extended Partition

In order to create an extended partition, you have to first boot from the Windows Me Recovery CD as described in steps 1 to 4 above.

Using ”A:\>FDisk” start the Microsoft Windows Me hard disk configuration program.

In the dialog box for large disk support select “[Y]” for Yes when prompted “Do you wish to enable large disk support (Y/N)...?”.

Create an extended DOS partition for the rest of the disk space, assign a logical drive and format it.

8.1.2Creating Partitions under Windows NT

After installing a new hard disk it is necessary to create partitions when they partitions have errors or need to be changed.

Caution

By deleting or creating partitions or logical DOS hard drives all saved data is lost on the hard disk. All drives on the hard disk will be erased.

The hard disk is delivered with the following installed (only for versions delivered with Windows NT):

a partition of with the FAT16 file system with 2045 Mbytes,

a partition of with the NTFS file system.

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