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Creating an Extended Partition
In order to create an extended partition, you have to first boot from the
Windows Me Recovery CD as described in steps 1 to 4 above.
Using ”A:\>FDisk” start the Microsoft Windows Me hard disk configuration
program.
In the dialog box for large disk support select “[Y]” for Yes when prompted “Do you
wish to enable large disk support (Y/N)...?”.
Create an extended DOS partition for the rest of the disk space, assign a logical
drive and format it.
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Creating Partitions under Windows NT
After installing a new hard disk it is necessary to create partitions when they
partitions have errors or need to be changed.
Caution
By deleting or creating partitions or logical DOS hard drives all saved data is lost
on the hard disk. All drives on the hard disk will be erased.
The hard disk is delivered with the following installed (only for versions delivered
with Windows NT):
– a partition of with the FAT16 file system with 2045 Mbytes,
– a partition of with the NTFS file system.