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Creating Primary Partitions and Formatting Drives with the
Windows 2000 Operating System
If you need to partition, format, or perform any action on the disks,
you should click the disk (partition or unallocated disk). When you
click the disk in the Computer Management window, the white section
of the disk changes to stripes showing that the section has been
selected.
To create a primary partition and format a drive:
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You might not have the same partitions and disk configuration shown in the
following procedure. However, examples in the procedure will help you
understand the Computer Management window in the Windows 2000
operating system.
1. Start your system and log in to an account with administrative
privileges.
2. Right-click the My Computer icon and choose Manage from the
pop-up menu.
The Computer Management window opens.
Disk 1
Physical disk section
Disk
Management
folder
Text pane
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