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IBM storage products Partition the drive Note: This example uses FDISK to partition your drive. You may use a similar partitioning program from your operating system to partition your drive. 1. Boot to a bootable diskette and type 'FDISK' at the A:\ prompt. If Windows 95 OSR2 or Windows 98 is used, the following screen will be displayed. Your computer has a disk larger than 512 MB. This version of Windows includes improved support for large disks, resulting in more efficient use of disk space on large drives, and allowing disks over 2 GB to be formatted as a single drive. IMPORTANT: If you enable large disk support and create any new drives on this disk, you will not be able to access the new drive(s) using other operating systems, including some versions of Windows 95 and Windows NT, as well as earlier versions of Windows and MS-DOS. In addition, disk utilities that were not designed explicitly for the FAT32 file system will not be able to work with this disk. If you need to access this disk with other operating systems or older disk utilities, do not enable large drive support. Do you wish to enable large disk support (Y/N N] 2. Type 'Y' to select the FAT 32 file system. Type 'N' to select the FAT 16 file system. The following screen is displayed. (If you have more than one drive, a fifth option will appear which allows you to select the drive to be partitioned.) Note: Select FAT 32 or FAT 16 if you are using Windows 95 OSR2 or Windows 98. FAT 32 partitions utilize disk space more efficiently and may be greater than 2 GB in size. If you are using DOS, Windows 3.1x, or an earlier version of Windows 95, select FAT 16. PC DOS Version 7.0 Fixed Disk Setup Program Copyright IBM Corporation 1983-1994 FDISK Options Current fixed disk drive: 1 Choose one of the following: 1. Create DOS partition or Logical DOS Drive 2. Set active partition 3. Delete partition or Logical DOS Drive 4. Display partition information 5. Change current fixed disk drive Enter choice:[1] Press ESC to exit FDISK IBM Technology Group Support Center Page 16 07N5612IG10