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U s e r I n s t a l l a b l e F e a t u r e s

Hard Disk Drive

Your Fujitsu LifeBook hard disk drive capacity is depen-
dent on which model you are using. Some LifeBooks
may also contain a removable hard disk drive in addi-
tion to the internal hard disk drive. (See Specifications on
page 97 for more information)

FORMATTING THE HARD DISK DRIVE

The internal hard disk drive is formatted, or initialized,
at the factory. You do not need to format it under
normal circumstances. If you decide to reformat due to
corruption or upgrade, please refer to your operating
system documentation for the correct procedure.

Before you reformat your hard disk drive, please note:

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Any data that currently resides on your hard disk drive
must be backed-up to floppy disks or other data
storage media, or it will be permanently lost. These
back-up disks can then be used to reinstall and restore
your data. (See your operating system manual for more
information on backing-up your data files)

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All application software that is installed on the
hard disk drive, must be reinstalled from the
original source.

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The factory-installed software, including the
operating system, can be restored using the Recovery
CD that came with your LifeBook.

MODULAR HARD DISK DRIVE

Your LifeBook may contain a modular hard disk drive in
addition to the internal hard disk drive. If your LifeBook
has a modular hard disk drive you will need to format
the drive before using it.

Formatting the Modular Hard Disk Drive
in Windows 98 Second Edition

1. Boot the system. When the Fujitsu logo appears

press the [F8] key to bring up the Microsoft
Windows Startup Menu.

2. Select option 6 command prompt only, using the

arrow key and press [Enter].

3. At the

C:>

prompt, type

Fdisk

and

press [Enter].

4. You will see a long message appear on the screen. At

the bottom of the message you will see the option,

Do you wish to enable large disk

support (Y/N)...? [N].

Type

to change

the option in the last statement to yes and press
[Enter] to continue.

5. You are now in the FDISK Options menu. Type

to select Change Current fixed disk drive and
press [Enter].

6. The next Change Current Fixed Disk Drive screen

displays info for both Primary (C:) and Secondary
(D:) Disks. Type

at the Fixed Disk Drive Number

and press [Enter].

7. You are now back in the FDISK Options menu

for drive D:. Press

in the Enter Choice: [ ] field

to go to the Display partition information option
and press [Enter].

8. If the message

No partitions defined

appears at the bottom of the Display Partition Infor-
mation screen, press [Esc].

9. You are now back in the FDISK Options menu.

Press

to change the Enter Choice: [ ] field to the

Create DOS partition or Logical DOS Drive option
(it should already be set to 1 as the default) and
press [Enter].

10. Press [Enter] again to select the default setting (#1)

Create Primary DOS Partition.

11. Fdisk will verify drive integrity and ask you if you

wish to use the maximum available size for Primary
DOS Partition. Type

for Yes. A message appears

“Primary DOS partition created, drive letters
changed as added.” Press [Esc] to continue. In this
case the partition usage will be 100% or 10GB, this
number may vary depending on your drive size.

12. You are now back in the FDISK Options menu. Press

to display your partitions info.

13. You should see the following in the Create Primary

DOS Partition screen:

PartitionStatus TypeVolume Label

D:1PRI DOS

MbytesSystemUsage

6194*Unknown100%

Primary DOS Partition created

14. Press [Esc] three times to exit the Create Primary

DOS Partition screen and FDISK Options menu.

15. Restart your LifeBook. when the Fujitsu logo