Selecting A Unit To Partition - Atari Faicon030 Owner's Manual

Fa/con030 Owner's Manual
Partitioning allows you to store and access your data efficiently by a llowing you to
group files and folders in different logical drives.
Use the Partition option to create partitions in sizes best suited to your disk storage
needs. The Partition option lets you u se an editing menu to set the size of each
partition or select a suggested partitioning scheme w i thout having to reformat your
disk.
Note : When you repartition your hard disk, you must use the Install Devices
command to install desktop icons/or the logical drives.
Selecting a U n it to Partition
Display t h e H D X fol der. Fol low these instructions t o partition a hard disk:
1 .
Select H DX . PRG from the HDX folder. Then select t h e
D i sk menu .
2.
A d ialog b o x displays, a s k i n g y o u i f t h e hard d i s k dri v e to be formatted i s an A C S I
driv e o r a S C S I drive. Select t h e appropriate drive type.
Select a physical unit dialog box displays.
3.
S e l ec t a phys i c a l u n i t for part i t i o n i n g . To part i ti o n your hard d i s k , select the u n i t
n umber of t h e d e v i c e y o u w a n t t o parti t i o n . O n l y u n i ts i n shadowed boxes can b e
selected. Select
4.
Select
There are two ways to select a partitioning scheme. You can use the Choose a
Partition Scheme dialog box to choose from preset partitioning schemes. Or you
can use the Edit Partition Scheme dialog box to create a customized partitioning
scheme. The fol lowing sections ful l y describe each method.
8-8 Advanced Hard Disk Utilities
OK
to continue.
a partitioning scheme.
Partition
option from the
Select OK to
cont i n ue. The