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Partition a New Hard Drive Using Windows Disk Manager
Partition a new hard drive using Windows Disk Manager
Step
1 From the Windows
a 'Start'
b 'Programs'
c 'Administrative Tools'
d 'Computer Management'
2 Choose 'Disk Management'.
3 Right-click on 'Unallocated'.
4 Select "New Partition".
5 Click 'Next'.
6 Highlight 'Primary Partition'.
7 Click 'Next'.
8 To 'Specify partition size' use the default 'Set
9 Click 'Next'.
10 Select 'Assign the following drive letter' Use
11 Click 'Next".
12 Accept the defaults.
13 Type "Recovery" into the Volume Label field.
14 Select "Perform a quick format"
15 Click 'Next'.
16 Click 'Finish'.
17 Close the Computer Management window.
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Desktop, make the
following selections:
partition size @ maximum disk space in
Mbytes'
the default "D".
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Notes
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The 'Computer Management' window
appears.
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Disk 0 is the entire hard drive. There are two
sections. One section is approximately 20%
of the total. This was set by the bootable CD
as unallocated space.
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The 'Welcome to the New Partition Wizard'
screen appears.
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"Select partition type" appears.
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This is the default.
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The 'Specify Partition Size' screen appears.
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This is the default.
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The 'Format Partition' screen appears.
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File system 'NTFS'
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Allocation unit size 'default'
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The message 'Completing the New Partition
Wizard' appears. This process takes about 15
seconds
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See 'Recovery (D)'
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approximately 7.45 GB NTFS
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Healthy
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Recovery
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