Creating And Deleting Partitions Manually; Create New Partition Dialog Box - Compaq AlphaServer 1200 User Manual

5.5.1 Creating and Deleting Partitions Manually

Use the Create Partition and Delete Partition options if you need to create a
custom hard disk partition arrangement or otherwise manually manage your
hard disk partitions.
Figure 5-17 Create New Partition Dialog Box
Disk 0 QLISP1020 #0, SCSI ID 3
Partition 1
Unused
Create new partition, Disk 0 Partition 2
Disk 1 NCRC810 #0, SCSI ID 5
Partition 1
Partition 2
Available space:
New Partition Size:
ENTER=Continue
To create a partition
1. Start AlphaBIOS and select Hard Disk Setup. Press Enter.
2. Select the disk on which to create the partition.
3. If one or more partitions already exist on the disk, select the unpartitioned space.
4. Press Insert. A dialog box is displayed, similar to Figure 5-17.
5. Type the size of the partition to create and press Enter.
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Hard Disk Setup
200 MB
310 MB
1001 MB
995 MB
310 MB
MB
200
ESC=Cancel
510 MB
NTFS
NTFS
6 MB FAT
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