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Matching Drive Letter Assignments

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5. Select Quick Format in the Format Options field, and then Start to begin formatting the logical drive. NOTE No action is necessary for the Capacity and Allocation Unit Size fields. 6. Repeat the above steps to format each drive to be shared in the cluster. The following example depicts both drives formatted and permanent drive letters assigned. Disk Administrator, Formatting and Assigning Volume labels 7. Exit Disk Administrator and go to the next procedure, Matching Drive Letter Assignments. Matching Drive Letter Assignments At this point, you have completed the array configuration using System A. Before continuing you need to match the assigned drive letters using System B. To do this, you need to shut down System A (but leave it powered on), reboot System B, then assign drive letters used on System B the same as those assigned with System A. Shut down System A To shut down System A (but leave it powered on): 1. From the Windows NT Start menu, click Shut Down. Windows displays its Shut Down dialog. 2. From the Shut Down dialog, choose Shut down the computer? 3. After a brief delay the system displays the Shutdown Computer prompt (with the option to Restart). 4. Leave the prompt displayed and the computer powered on. The computer is powered on but idle. 21

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5.
Select
Quick Format
in the
Format Options
field, and then
Start
to begin formatting the
logical drive.
NOTE
No action is necessary for the
Capacity
and
Allocation Unit Size
fields.
6.
Repeat the above steps to format each drive to be shared in the cluster.
The following example depicts both drives formatted and permanent drive letters assigned.
Disk Administrator, Formatting and Assigning Volume labels
7.
Exit Disk Administrator and go to the next procedure,
Matching Drive Letter Assignments.
Matching Drive Letter Assignments
At this point, you have completed the array configuration using System A.
Before continuing you need to
match the assigned drive letters using System B.
To do this, you need to shut down System A (but leave it
powered on), reboot System B, then assign drive letters used on System B the same as those assigned with
System A.
Shut down System A
To shut down System A (but leave it powered on):
1.
From the Windows NT
Start
menu, click
Shut Down
.
Windows displays its
Shut Down
dialog.
2.
From the Shut Down dialog, choose
Shut down the computer?
3.
After a brief delay the system displays the Shutdown Computer prompt (with the option to Restart).
4.
Leave the prompt displayed and the computer powered on.
The computer is powered on but idle.