Dell OptiPlex E1 User Manual
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11. Replace the expansion-card cage as instructed in "
Replacing the Expansion-Card Cage
".
12. Replace the computer cover. Then reconnect your computer and peripherals to their power sources, and turn them
on.
13. Insert a bootable diskette (such as the Dell Diagnostics Diskette) into drive A, and turn on the computer system.
14. Enter the System Setup program, and update the Primary Drive 0 and Chassis Intrusion categories.
See "
Primary Drive n and Secondary Drive n
" and "
15. Partition and logically format your drive, as described in "Partitioning and Logically Formatting Your EIDE Hard-
Disk Drive" found later in this chapter, before proceeding to the next step.
16. Test the hard-disk drive by running the Hard-Disk Drive(s) Test Group in the Dell Diagnostics.
See your Diagnostics and Troubleshooting Guide for information on running the Dell Diagnostics and troubleshooting any
problems that may occur.
17. Install your operating system on your hard-disk drive.
Refer to the documentation that came with your operating system.
Partitioning and Logically Formatting Your EIDE Hard-Disk Drive
EIDE hard-disk drives must be physically formatted, partitioned, and logically formatted before they can be used to store data.
Every hard-disk drive from Dell is formatted before it is sent to you.
NOTE:
On systems with hard-disk drives larger than 2 gigabytes (GB), create a primary partition of 2 GB and divide the
remaining capacity into partitions of 2 GB or less. For example, a system with a 2.5-GB hard-disk drive would have a
primary partition of 2 GB (drive C) and a second partition of 500 megabytes (MB) (drive D). Hard-disk drives must be
partitioned this way because MS-DOS-based operating systems (including Windows NT, when using a file allocation
table [FAT] 16 file system) do not support drive partitions larger than 2 GB.
To partition and logically format your hard-disk drive, use the program(s) offered by your operating system.
For MS-DOS, use the fdisk and format commands to perform these procedures. The fdisk and format commands are described
in the MS-DOS reference documentation.
For OS/2, see the discussion on partitioning and logical formatting in the documentation that came with the operating system.
CAUTION:
If you format your hard-disk drive under the OS/2 High Performance File System (HPFS), you cannot
reformat the drive for MS-DOS without losing all HPFS data. See your OS/2 documentation for details.
For Windows NT, see the discussion on partitioning and logical formatting in the documentation that came with the operating
system.
CAUTION:
If you format your hard-disk drive under the Windows NT File System (NTFS), you cannot reformat the
drive for MS-DOS without losing all NTFS data. See your Windows NT documentation for details.
For the UNIX
®
operating system, refer to your UNIX documentation.