Western Digital WD Caviar Installation Manual page 49

Press twice to exit the program. Follow the instructions in
ESC
Formatting Your Hard Drive.
To create multiple partitions, type N and press
displays. Type the number of megabytes or the percentage
of disk space to use. The following message displays.
Primary DOS partition created, drive letters
changed or added.
Press to return to the Fdisk main menu. Next you need to
ESC
set the active partition, create an extended partition, and
create logical drives.
Note: When you format the primary partition, be sure to use
the /S switch to make the partition bootable.
To Set the Active Partition
The active partition contains your operating system. If you
create multiple partitions, you must set the active partition. You
can only make primary partitions active.
1. From the Fdisk main menu, select 2. Set Active Partition.
2. Type the number of the partition you want to make active.
3. Press to return to the Fdisk main menu.
ESC
To Create Extended DOS Partitions
1. From the Fdisk main menu, select 1. Create DOS Partition
or Logical DOS Drive.
2. From the Create DOS Partition menu, select 2. Create
Extended DOS Partition.
3. A menu displays showing the total number of megabytes
available for an extended DOS partition. Press ENTER to
accept the default size. The following message displays.
Extended DOS partition created.
. A menu
ENTER
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