Atari Faicon030 Owner's Manual page 144

There are four slots on your hard disk that keep track of partition information. You
can fil l each slot with a standard partition, and have each partition represented on
your desktop by a logical drive. Or you can fill one of the four slots w it h an
extended partition to obtain more than four logical drives.
An e x tended partition i s subdiv i ded into more than one partition. This allows you to
have more than one logical drive representing that slot.
Note: To store system startup data the first partition must be a standard partition.
This partition is always assigned to the first slot. You cannot select the first slot to
contain the extended partition . You must use one of the three remaining slots to
contain your extended partition.
Supporting M u ltiTOS
automaticall y choose slot number two to contain your extended partition.
However, if you plan to use more than one operating system, i t may be useful to
choose the specifics of the partition assignments. Some operating systems w i l l not
recognize an extended partition scheme. The partitions you use w i th these operating
systems must be standard partitions.
The Expert option of the Edit Partition Scheme dialog box allows you to choose
which slot w i l l contain the extended partition, and which of four slots will contain
standard partitions.
The Select the extended partition scheme dialog box displays the current extended
partition scheme. The Partition section on the left side of the dialog box shows the
partition number, size, and range of each partition.
The Extended Partition Range dialog box on the right side of the dialog box allows
you to choose which slot w i l l contain the extended partition scheme. The Extended
Partition Range dialog box displays each slot ' s range of partitions.
as your primary operating system, HDX.PRG will
Advanced Hard Disk Util ities
Appendixes
8-1 7