Getting Started
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3.4 Formatting the Hard Drive
After installing hard drives to your system, you will need to format them before use.
1. Right-click
the
Computer
icon
on your desktop, select
Manage
, and select
Disk
Management
when the Computer Management window appears.
2. On the main page of Disk Management, the Initialize Disk dialog box appears for the new
drive. Click the created disk and select a partition style.
Figure 3-9
3. Right-click in the unallocated space of a new drive, and select
New Simple Volume
.
Figure 3-10
