6.
In the ‘Change Current Fixed Disk Drive’ screen, type the disk drive number that assigned to the
external hard disk (usually, the external hard disk is the fixed disk drive number 2).
7.
Back to ‘FDISK OPTIONS’ screen, type
4
to display the content of the fixed disk drive, check
the content to make sure the current drive is the external hard disk.
8.
Now you can create (type
1
) or delete (type
3
) the partition of the external hard disk.
9.
After you finish FDISK, re-boot computer to activate these changes.
Using Disk Management Under Windows 2000/XP
Note: The external hard disk can’t works with ‘Dynamic Disk’ type. Do not upgrade the external
hard disk to ‘Dynamic Disk’ type, always use it with ‘Basic Disk’ type.
1.
To partition the external hard disk under Windows 2000 or Windows XP, please plug the
external hard disk and make sure it is recognized, then,
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In Windows 2000: click Start
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Settings
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Control Panel
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Administrative Tools
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Computer Management to open ‘Computer Management’ window.
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In Windows XP: click Start
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Control Panel
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Performance and Maintenance
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Administrative Tools
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Computer Management to open ‘Computer Management’ window.
2.
Click on ‘Disk Management’ on the left part of this window, all connected disk drives will be
listed in the right part. Find out the largest number of Disk #, for example, on the below picture,
Disk 1 is the largest number, and it is the external hard disk. On the right side of the Disk 1 is the
status of the partitions of this disk drive, you can create a new or delete an exist partition by
right-click on this area. The next steps will describe how to create a new partition on this external
hard disk.