Seagate Cheetah 36, Installation Manual

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Cheetah 36 Installation Guide, Rev. A 39
the drive you want to partition. Make sure that your new
drive is selected. If you accidently repartition your old
hard drive, you will erase all data on the drive.
d. Press
1
to select “Create DOS partition or logical DOS
drive” and then press the
ENTER
key.
e. Press
1
again to select “Create primary DOS partition”
and then press the
ENTER
key. Create your first drive
partition.
If you are creating a partition that will be used to boot
your computer (drive C:), make sure that the partition is
marked
active
.
f. Create an extended partition and additional logical
drives, if necessary, until all the space on your new hard
drive has been partitioned.
g. When the partitioning is complete, fdisk reboots your
computer.
Drive formatting
a. At the
A:
prompt, type format x where x is the letter of
your new partition. If this is your boot drive, type format
x: /s. Make sure you use the correct drive letter. If you
format a drive that already contains data, you will erase
all data on the drive.
b. Repeat this process for all the new partitions you have
created.
After you format your new drive, it is ready to use. You’re
done!