Appendix A: Partition And Format - Promise Technology FastTrak TX4650 User Manual

Appendix A: Partition and Format

In order for your operating system to recognize and work with the physical (disk)
drives attached to your FastTrak TX Series SATA/SAS RAID controller card,
your logical drive must be partitioned and formatted.
• If your drives were previously partitioned and formatted they are ready to use
and you can skip this procedure
• If your drives have not been partitioned and formatted, you must do that job
before you can use them
The actions of partitioning and formatting create a file structure on the physical
drives with which your operating system can work. In the example below, we
show how this is done in Windows. A similar procedure is required for Linux PCs.
However, partitioning and formatting in Linux is not automated, therefore please
refer to your system documentation for the exact procedure.
1. From the desktop, right-click the My Computer icon and select Manage from
the popup menu. The Computer Management window opens.
2. From the left menu, click Disk Management. The Disk Management window
opens with your new logical drive identified as Disk 1. The Initialize Wizard
appears automatically.
If you plan to boot your computer from this logical drive, you
partition and format the logical drive when you install the OS.
The instructions here are for non-bootable logical drives used for
data storage only.
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