Mobile Video HDD HV356T - Manual (Page 42)

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9. Click “Next” to confirm settings.
10. Click “Finish” to close the wizard and to start the partitioning and formatting process.
Partitioning the Hard Disk Drive under Windows Me/98SE
FDISK is a program to create partitions on the hard disk drive. (Data can only be written to
a drive after it is partitioned and formatted). To partition the Mobile Video HDD, you must
execute FDISK under the MS-DOS mode.
Please follow these steps:
1. Install the Mobile Video HDD under Windows, and confirm that it is properly detected by
the operating system.
2. Go into the MS-DOS mode by clicking on “Start” Ö “Programs” Ö “MS-DOS Prompt”.
3. At the DOS prompt, type “FDISK” and press Enter key.
4. In the first screen, answer “Y” to enable large disk support.
5. The next screen is “FDISK OPTIONS”.
You must type “5” on this screen to change the current fixed disk drive; the
default fixed drive set by FDISK is the internal hard disk drive. If you do not
change it to the Mobile Video HDD, the data of internal hard disk drive will be
destroyed.
If the option 5 does not appear on this screen, it means the Mobile Video HDD
is not installed properly, please check its installation.
6. In “Change Current Fixed Disk Drive” screen, type the disk drive number that is assigned
to the Mobile Video HDD (usually, it is assigned to number 2).
7. Go back to “FDISK OPTIONS” screen, now you can create (type “1”) or delete (type “3”)
the partition of the drive.
Note: Delete a partition will also erase all data stored within the partition!
8. Follow the instructions of FDISK to create a new “Primary” partition. Accepting the
default values will create the largest FAT32 partition possible.
9. After you finished FDISK, reboot computer to activate the change.