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Huge Systems U320-R User’s Guide
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Windows NT Partition / Format
Windows NT provides a utility to partition and format disks. Locate and start the Disk Administration
program by clicking:
Start > Program > Administrative Tools > Disk Administrator.
Each U320-R should appear as a disk entry with “Free Space”.
Preparing a single U320-R
Right click on the “Free Space”, left click on Create, confirm the size of the partition you desire, click OK.
Click Yes to confirm partition creation.
The changes must be committed before going further, right click on the “Unformatted” section of the disk
and click on “Commit Changes Now”. Click Yes to save the changes. Click OK to confirm “Disks were
updated successfully”.
After the partition is created, it must be formatted. Right click on the “Unknown” section of the disk and
click Format. Change the File System to NTFS, change the Volume Label as desire, check the Quick
Format box, and leaving the other selections as they are. Click Start > OK to begin the formatting
operation.
A progress meter will show the progress, at completion a confirmation dialog box will appear, click OK >
Close. Note the newly prepared disk will have a drive letter associated with it. Exit program if done.
Preparing a pair of U320-R (striping)
Select the disks you which to stripe together by Left click on the first disk with “Free Space”, then press
Control and left click on the second disk with “Free Space”. Right click on either one of the selected “Free
Space”, left click on Create Stripe Set, confirm the size of the partition you desire, click OK.
The changes must be committed before going further, right click on the “Unformatted” section of one of
the disk and click on “Commit Changes Now”. Click Yes to save the changes. Click OK to confirm
“Disks were updated successfully”.
After the partition is created, it must be formatted. Right click on the “Unknown” section of one of the disk
and click Format. Change the File System to NTFS, change the Volume Label as desire, check the Quick
Format box, and leaving the other selections as they are. Click Start > OK to begin the formatting
operation.
A progress meter will show the progress, at completion a confirmation dialog box will appear, click OK >
Close. Note the newly prepared disks will have a drive letter associated with it. Exit program if done.