Dell OptiPlex E1 Reference And Installation Manual page 121

See "Primary Drive n and Secondary Drive n " and "Chassis Intrusion" in
Chapter 2.
See your Diagnostics and Troubleshooting Guide for information on running the
Dell Diagnostics and troubleshooting any problems that may occur.
Refer to the documentation that came with your operating system.
EIDE hard-disk drives must be physically formatted, partitioned, and logically format-
ted before they can be used to store data. Every hard-disk drive from Dell is formatted
before it is sent to you.
NOTE: On systems with hard-disk drives larger than 2 gigabytes (GB), create a pri-
mary partition of 2 GB and divide the remaining capacity into partitions of 2 GB or
less. For example, a system with a 2.5-GB hard-disk drive would have a primary
partition of 2 GB (drive C) and a second partition of 500 megabytes (MB) (drive D).
Hard-disk drives must be partitioned this way because MS-DOS–based operating sys-
tems (including Windows NT, when using a file allocation table [FAT] 16 file system)
do not support drive partitions larger than 2 GB.
To partition and logically format your hard-disk drive, use the program(s) offered by
your operating system.
For MS-DOS , use the fdisk and format commands to perform these procedures. The
fdisk and format commands are described in the MS-DOS reference documentation.
For OS/2 , see the discussion on partitioning and logical formatting in the documenta-
tion that came with the operating system.
'HOO 'LDJQRVWLFV 'LVNHWWH
Installing Drives 7-13