IBM ThinkPad® I Series 1400 and 1500 Notebook Computers
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L.
Replace the silver plate over the hard drive and secure it with the
three screws in step G.
M.
Replace the keyboard and secure it using the two screws you removed
in step D.
N.
Replace I Series bar above the keyboard and return the tab back to its
original position.
O.
Replace all the cables you removed in step B.
Formatting a New Hard Drive
If your Simple Technology hard drive is not formatted, you must format it
before it can hold data.
A.
Boot from a startup disk. Then, at the DOS prompt, type
FDISK
and
press the Enter key.
B.
When prompted about creating a partition over 2 GB, answer
Yes
.
(Older versions of FDISK do not ask this question.)
C.
When the menu appears, select
1. Create DOS partition or Logical
DOS Drive
and press Enter.
D.
When prompted, select
1. Create Primary DOS Partition
and press
Enter
E.
When prompted, either press Enter to accept the default size or press
N
to define a custom partition size.
F.
Press Esc until you return to the FDISK options. Then select
2. Set
active partition.
G.
Press 1 to make the primary partition active. Then press Esc until you
return to the DOS prompt. Restart your notebook to have your
changes take effect.
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