Reinstallation of the Software

Primary Partition, FAT32 File System

1.Boot from the Recovery CD and press ESC when the BIOS message

Press <F2> to enter Setup

appears. After initialization, select the boot options in the boot menu.

2.Select ”ATAPI CD-ROM Drive”.

3.Select ”2. Boot for FDISK, FORMAT or Windows 98 Setup” in the ”Microsoft Windows Startup Menu” screen form.

4.Start the Microsoft Windows hard disk configuration program with ”A:\>FDisk”. In the screen form select “Do you wish to enable large disk support (Y/N)...?

[ Y ]” for Yes to support data media with large memory capacity.

5.Create a primary DOS partition with 4090 MB. Enter [N] for “No” for the question ”Do you want to use the maximum memory size available for the primary DOS partition and do you want to activate this partition?” and set the partition size to 6100 MB.

6.To format the partition from the Recovery CD, as described above in steps 1 to 3, reboot and then format drive C: with the “Format” program. Enter: ”A:\>Format C:”

(A: is the CD-ROM drive).

Creating an Extended FAT 32 Partition

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

Create an extended DOS partition for the rest of the disk space.

In the Windows 2000 setup or under Windows 2000 the FAT 32 file system can be converted to an NTFS file system with the “Format” function.

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