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Section Three
Steps 8-12 Formatting a Drive that is Less than 32 MB
(See Steps 8A-12A and 8B-18B for Greater than 32 MB Drives)
Step 8
Create One Volume for the Entire Disk
Now that the drive has been primary formatted, it is
necessary
to configure the
drive as a single DOS 3.x volume. From the main menu, choose Option 1 ("To
create DOS & Adaptec logical partitions (volumes)") to create a volume on the
drive.
Adaptec's volume partition menu will then be displayed on the screen. Choose
Option
0
to create a volume, and select volume number
1
(drive C:) as the
volume number to be created. Enter the total number of cylinders available
(displayed on the program menu) as the number of cylinders to be used by this
volume. An example, using
611
cylinders, of what should be displayed on the
screen is shown below.
Volume Partition Program
Drive 0 has 611cylinders,4 heads, 26 sectors
YQJJt
~
Start
End
1
c
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Choose : 0 - to create a volume
1 - to delete a volume
2 - to FDISK a volume
3 - to return to main program
enter your selection : 0 <CR>
volume number : 1 <CR>
Volume 1 always starts from cyl. 0
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
number of cyl. (each cyl. will have 52 KB) :
611
<CR>
ACB-237X
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