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Installing and/or Configuring Other Software
Optional Procedures
Chapter 5: Maintenance
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Optional Procedures
Below are several optional procedures that you might want to use to improve the performance of
your NT Voice Mail System.
Reformatting Remaining Unused Disk Space
Since the Windows NT setup program creates the primary partition with a maximum size of
4095 MB, there is an area on the hard disk that is not used after Windows NT is set up. When you
format this space as follows, you can use it for storing voice messages.
To reformat any remaining unused disk space:
1. To open the Disk Administrator program:
Click the button. Select Programs, Administrative Tools, and Disk Administrator.
At the right of the C: partition, you will see a cross-hatched area representing the unused space.
2. On the Disk Administrator window:
Right-click D: in the CD-ROM box.
3. On the drop-down menu:
Select Assign Drive Letter.
4. On the Assign Drive Letter window:
Select E: on the scroll-down menu, and click the button.
5. On the Confirm dialog box:
Click the Yes button.
6. On the Disk Administrator window:
Right-click the cross-hatched Free Space area, and select Create Extended on the drop-down
menu.
7. On the Create Extended Partition window:
Click the button to accept the maximum default size.
8. On the Disk Administrator window:
Right-click the cross-hatched Free Space area, and select Create on the drop-down menu.
9. On the Create Logical Drive window:
Click the OK button to accept the maximum default size.
The area on the Disk Administrator window now says D:.
10. On the Disk Administrator window:
Right-click the D:, and select Commit Changes Now on the drop-down menu.
11. Click the Yes button on the dialog box to confirm that you want your change saved.
12. Click the button on the dialog box suggesting that you use RDISK.EXE later
on (when you have finished this procedure) to create an Emergency Repair Disk.
13. Right-click the D:, and select Format on the drop-down menu.
14. On the Format D:\ window:
Scroll down the File System list, highlight NTFS, and click the Start button.
15. On the dialog box warning that formatting will erase all data on the disk:
Click the button.
16. Click the button on the Format Complete dialog box, and close the Format
D:\ window.
17. Click Partition on the menu bar, and select Exit on the Partition menu.