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INSTALLING THE HARD DISK

Â NOTE: Your drive has already been set up in production.

It will not be necessary to reformat or repartition it.

Â CAUTION! Partitioning or formatting a disk drive deletes

data. We assume no responsibility for lost data.

BEFORE YOU INSTALL YOUR HARD DISK ...

We would like to remind you once again that when installing the new

hard disk some programs are used that could cause your data to be irre-

versibly lost if used incorrectly.

Â Make a backup of all your data and check that the recov-

ery procedure works.

PARTITIONING PROGRAMS

With Windows

2000/XP use the data media management help pro-

gram in order to install the hard disk. You can find the program in the

computer management.

With some operating systems you must have administration rights to

install a hard disk.

With Windows

ME the hard disk is installed with the DOS program

FDISK. Look under help in Windows for detailed information on using this

program.

PARTITIONING THE DRIVE

Partitioning a drive divides the space into different areas that can be ac-

cessed as separate logic drives (with letters C:, D:, E: etc.). Read the

operating system manual to find out to partition hard drives.

FORMATTING THE DRIVE

In order to remove data from the hard disk, the partitions must be for-

matted.

Â CAUTION! You must be totally sure about which drive let-

ter to enter so that you don’t format a drive that contains

data you wish to keep.

You can carry out the partitioning using Windows

Explorer (right click on

the drive and select format).

Read which formatting options you have in the next section.

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