Western Digital WD Caviar Installation Manual page 50

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4. Press
twice to return to the Fdisk main menu.
ESC
To Create Logical Drives in an Extended DOS Partition
1. From the Fdisk main menu, select 1. Create DOS Partition
or Logical DOS Drive.
2. From the create DOS Partition menu, select 3. Create Logical
DOS Drive(s) in the Extended DOS Partition.
3. A menu displays showing the total number of megabytes
available for an extended DOS partition. Press
accept the default size.
The following message displays.
All available space in the Extended DOS
partition is assigned to logical drives.
4. Press
twice to exit Fdisk. The following message displays.
ESC
You must restart your system for your
changes to take effect. Shut down Windows
before restarting.
5. Reboot the system. Follow the instructions in Formatting Your
Hard Drive on page 47.
Adding the Western Digital Drive as a Second (Slave) Hard
Drive
If your new Western Digital hard drive is the slave drive in your
system, follow the instructions outlined in Replacing an Existing
(Single or Master) Drive on page 44. However, before you
partition the drive, select option 5. Change current fixed disk
drive from the Fdisk main menu to select the drive you want to
partition.
Make sure that you have selected the new drive. Do not delete
any partitions on your existing drive; doing so results in lost
data.
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