Mitsubishi Electric Apricot XEN pentium, Owner'S Handbook Manual

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Getting started with your computer
Chapter 2
To turn off the computer, simply press the
POWER
button again.
The green indicator on the button goes out. (Remember that
the monitor is powered from the system unit.)
After you turn the computer off, wait at least 5 seconds before
turning it on again. The computer may not initialize itself
properly if you turn it off then on again in quick succession.
Preparing a second hard disk
Some computers have two hard disk drives, known as
master and slave.
The master drive is partitioned, formatted and has Microsoft
MS-DOS installed at the factory. The drive is given a single
primary DOS partition, which is the active partition. When
you turn the computer on, it will boot (load its operating
system) from the master drive, which will appear as MS-DOS
drive C.
The slave drive is not partitioned or formatted. You must
partition the slave drive with the MS-DOS Fdisk program,
and format the partitions with the
Format command. Until
you do this, you will be unable to use the slave drive. See
your MS-DOS manual for instructions on using
Fdisk and
Format .
Caution: When you run Fdisk , it assumes you want to
work with the first, or master, drive (it says the “Current
fixed disk drive” is “1”). To switch attention to the slave
drive, choose Select next fixed disk drive (option 5) from
the main menu.
Of course, you may also want to use Fdisk to repartition
the master drive. If you decide to do this, be sure to make
a back up copy of all the information on the drive first,
including MS-DOS itself, as repartitioning will cause the
master drive’s existing contents to be lost.