Siemens 620 appendix Creating Partitions under Windows

Reinstallation of the Software

To restore the partitions to their original condition, please do the following:

Primary Partition

1.To boot from the Recovery CD proceed as follows: When the message

Press <F2> to enter Setup

appears on the screen press the ESC key. After initialization a boot menu to select the boot options is displayed.

2.Select “ATAPI CD-ROM Drive”.

3.When “Microsoft Windows 98 Startup Menu” is displayed, select “2. Boot for FDISK, FORMAT or Windows NT Setup”.

4.Start the Microsoft Windows 98 hard disk configuration program with ”A:\>FDisk” (A is the CD-ROM drive).

Select the dialog box for enable large disk support for installing a FAT16 partition “activate support (Y/N)...? [ N ] ” for No.

5.Create a primary DOS-Partition of 2045 MB for a FAT 16 file system. Answer the question “Do you wish to use the maximum available size...” for a 2045 MB FAT16 partition with [Y] for Yes.

6.In order to continue with the next step “Create a Save to Disk Partition” the primary partition needs to be formatted.

Use the Recovery CD to boot as described in steps 1 to 3 above and then format drive C: with the program “Format”.

Type: ”A:\>Format C:”.

The creation of NTFS partitions is done under the Windows NT setup program. Starting the Windows NT setup is described in Section 8.2.2.

8.1.3Creating Partitions under Windows 2000

After installing a new hard disk it is necessary to create partitions when the 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:

–a partition with the FAT32 file system ,

–a partition with NTFS file system.

To restore the partition to its delivery state, proceed as follows:

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