User manual HITACHI TRAVELSTAR 12GN REFERENCE GUIDE

[. . . ] Hitachi GST makes no warranty, implied or otherwise, regarding the performance or reliability of these companies or products. Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Partitioning and Formatting Guide version 1. 2 2 Windows 2000/XP hard drive setup during installation To begin the installation of Windows 2000 / XP, you will need to insert the bootable Windows CD into the CD drive. If you are installing from floppies, insert the first floppy into drive A:. One of the first things you will see during the installation process is "Press F6 if you need to install additional drivers. . . " The message only appears for 6 seconds before the installation continues. You will need to press F6 to load additional drivers if you are using a SCSI controller card, a SATA controller card, or a RAID controller card that is not natively supported by Windows. [. . . ] Another way to Select the Utilities folder and inside you will find Disk access Disk Utility: Utility. 2. When the Utilities folder opens, find the "Disk Utility" icon and double click. Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Partitioning and Formatting Guide version 1. 2 11 3. Select which hard drive you wish to partition. 4. After selecting the drive click on the Partition Tab. Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Partitioning and Formatting Guide version 1. 2 12 5. Select the number of partitions you want to create 6. Select the file system (format) for the partition Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Partitioning and Formatting Guide version 1. 2 13 7. Click on the "Partition" button 8. Older versions of Disk Utility have an option for OS 9 drivers. This option will allow users to switch from OS X back to OS 9. Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Partitioning and Formatting Guide version 1. 2 14 Installing a Hard Drive to an Existing Linux System This guide uses FDISK to partition and format a drive. There are other utilities such as CFDISK and QTParted that will partition and format a drive. Note: If you are unsure of the syntax or switches of a command, you can always run the "man" command. This will bring up the manual page for whatever command you specify. Example: man fdisk. FDISK Command Syntax: (fdisk /dev/xxx )(xxx = the drive designation with which you wish to work. Example: hda, hdb, sda, sdb) Instructions for creating one partition using the entire capacity of the hard drive 1. Enter the above command with the correct device with which you wish to work. Choose P to list the partitions on this drive. Choose the cylinder you wish the partition to start on or press Enter for the default. When specifying the size of the drive, you can enter it in terms of the last cylinder or the size in MB's or KB's. To use the entire drive, just press Enter. Press Q to exit FDISK Instructions for creating multiple partitions 1. Enter the command line to initiate the fdisk utility. Choose which cylinder you want to start the partition at or press "Enter" to select the default. [. . . ] This is only a cosmetic problem; the utility will partition the hard drive correctly. However, Microsoft has released an update to address the issue. The Microsoft description of the issue and the patch for the 64-GB cosmetic limitation of FDISK can be found at the following URL: http://support. microsoft. com/default. aspx?scid=kb;en-us;263044 For an explanation of how MS-DOS and Windows 9. x assigns drive letters view Microsoft's Knowledge base article #51978: http://support. microsoft. com/default. aspx?scid=kb;en-us;51978 Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Partitioning and Formatting Guide version 1. 2 20 Initializing an ATA hard drive in Macintosh OS 8. X through 9. X · Go to the System Folder, Utilities, and open Drive Setup. Select the hard drive you want to initialize then select Initialize to proceed to the Initialize screen. [. . . ]