Starting Your Pc For The First Time; Initializing Your Software; Partitioning Your Hard Disk Drive - HP Vectra VL600 User Manual

NOTE
NOTE

Starting Your PC for the First Time

If your PC has preinstalled software, it is initialized the first time you
start the PC. This process sets up the software in your language and
sets up your software to use the hardware installed in your computer
(you can change the settings after the software has been initialized).

Initializing Your Software

Do NOT switch OFF the PC while the software is being initialized—this
could cause unexpected results.
1 Turn on the monitor first, and then the PC.
When the PC is switched on, the Vectra Logo is displayed. The PC
performs a Power-On-Self-Test (POST). Press Esc if you want to
view the POST details in the HP Summary Screen.
2 The software initialization routine starts. During this time, you will
be asked to carry out various tasks including entering the Windows
product ID #, selecting the regional settings to be used on your
computer and creating a startup diskette.
3 After the initialization routine has finished, click on OK and the PC
will restart.

Partitioning Your Hard Disk Drive

Your hard disk drive is supplied with a single 2GB FAT16 partition. To
use the remaining space on your hard drive, follow the instructions
below:
Using the FDISK Utility (Windows 95 and Windows 98)
The FDISK utility should only be used by experienced personnel.
1 Insert the startup diskette created during the software initialization
routine and restart your PC.
2 At A:\, type FDISK.
1 Setting Up and Using Your PC
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