Western Digital WD Caviar Installation Manual page 51

The drive letters assigned to the partitions on your existing
master drive could change if installing your new hard drive as a
slave drive. If drive letters change on your master drive, you
might need to change the paths for your software programs
installed on that drive. We recommend installing your new
hard drive as the master drive; then copy all of the data on your
existing hard drive onto your new hard drive.
Formatting Your Hard Drive
You need to format each partition separately. Each partition has
a drive letter. Fdisk assigns drive letters as listed in the following
table.
Partition
Master Drive primary partition (bootable)
Slave Drive primary partition
Master Drive extended partition (logical drive 1)
Master Drive extended partition (logical drive 2)
Slave Drive extended partition (logical drive 3)
Slave Drive extended partition (logical drive 4)
To Format a Partition
1. To format a partition, type FORMAT followed by the drive
letter at the DOS prompt. For example, to format the "D"
drive, type FORMAT D: and press
To make the primary partition (C:) bootable, type FORMAT
C: /S and press
ENTER.
Drive Letter
C:
D:
E:
F:
G:
H:
.
ENTER
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