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Partition the external hard disk, Using fdisk under windows 98se/me – EXP Computer HD TRAVELER E PCMCIA (including Win 2000 XP) User Manual

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PARTITION THE EXTERNAL HARD DISK

Using FDISK Under Windows 98SE/Me

FDISK is a program to create one or more partitions of the hard disk, after the partition was built and

formatted, data can be write to the hard disk.

To partition the external hard disk, you must execute FDISK under the MS-DOS mode under Windows

98SE/Me, please follow the steps:

1. Boot-up the computer into Windows 98SE/Me system. Plug the external hard disk to computer, and

make sure it is recognized.

2. Go into the MS-DOS mode by click on Start ! Programs ! MS-DOS Prompt.

3. At the DOS prompt, type ‘FDISK’ and press Enter.

4. In the first screen of FDISK, answer the question: Do you want to enable large disk support?

Y if you want to create a partition larger than 2GB (FAT32).

N if you want to create a partition small than 2GB (FAT16).

5. The next screen is ‘FDISK OPTIONS’,

IMPORTANT: you must type 5 on this screen to change the current fixed disk drive, the default

fixed drive set by FDISK is your internal hard disk, if you don’t change it to the

external hard disk, the data of your internal hard disk will be destroyed.

Note: If the option 5 doesn’t appear on this screen means the external hard disk is not installed

properly, please check with the software installation.