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2
3
4
5
6
7
8
3 5
S
ETTING
U
P
A
N
EW
HDD
FOR
THE
F
IRST
T
IME
Before you can use a new HDD for the
first time, you have to do two things:
tell the computer about the HDD.
(refer to
Chapter 4: Firmware
)
prepare the HDD to accept data.
(refer to your operating system manual)
HDD
¯
Formatting the HDD
A hard disk must be partitioned, and formatted be-
fore use. To partition the HDD, use the utility from
your operating system (e.g.
MS-DOS
s
fdisk
com-
mand) to do this. To format, use the utility from
your operating system (e.g.
MS-DOS
s
format
or
format/s
command). Consult your operating
systems manual for more information on its parti-
tioning and formatting utilities.
Note:
If you want to use the
Save to Disk
fea-
ture, refer to
Chapter 5: Power
before you par-
tition the HDD.
After you replace or upgrade the HDD, turn the
system on and configure it for the newly-installed
HDD using
Setup
. Refer to
Chapter 4: Firmware
.
528MB
OR
L
ARGER
HDD
S
& LBA M
ODE
The notebook automatically reads any HDD
528MB or larger as using LBA Mode. If you are
using a 528MB or larger HDD which was format-
ted on an older system which did not use LBA
mode, this system will not see it correctly. In that
case, you must re-format the HDD on this system.
M
Warning
Whenever you install a
different hard disk that
has a
Save-to-Disk
par-
tition on it, make sure
you follow the proce-
dures detailed in
Chap-
ter 4: Firmware
and
Chapter 5: Power.
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