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ANNEXE B - Hard disk formatting
If the installed disk is not formatted, it won’t be recognized by the player and won’t be able to complete
its booting procedure. In this case, you must format the hard disk on your computer. If your disk is already
formatted, you can skip this chapter.
Use a hard disk management utility to create a main partition and format your hard disk in FAT32. You can
use the «Format» function in W indows Explorer. Take care as it’s often necessary to create a partition
before being able to format the hard disk. This operation is a little bit difficult and we suggest you to use
dedicated software.
Under Windows 98SE, you can use the “FDISK” software in the MSDOS windows to create a partition.
Be careful, this is a delicate operation. In case of mistake, you could destroy all the data stored your main
hard disk.
Under Windows 2000, use the Disk manager from the Control panel. Don’t hesitate to open the Windows
Help menu or to be helped by a specialist.
Please note that, in Windows 2000 or XP, the disk management utility is not able to format in FAT32 a hard
disk greater than 32GB.
Never use a NFTS formatting.
If you have a hard disk greater than 32GB, you have to use other software. Numerous commercial tools
exist, but also Shareware and Freeware.
If you don’t have this kind of software, we suggest you to use the SwissKnife Freeware that you can
download from our web site www.id-al.com. This utility software will allow you to create any kind of
partition and formatting without size limitation.