Elitegroup 259II v.8 - Manual (Page 2)

■ appendix C Using Power Cinema
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Software Installation:
Power Cinema resides in a separate HDD partition to Windows.
When you press the multimedia player launch key while the
notebook is off, the computer boots to the Linux environment and
launches the Power Cinema application.
If you are required to re-install Windows O/S or when you have
purchased a new or upgraded HDD, you need to observe the
following steps before installing Power Cinema.
1. Partitioning. Assuming you are starting with a fresh hard drive
or the hard drive is removed of its previous partitions. You need
to reserve 550MB of disc space for Power Cinema. You could
either use a partition tool or as you install Windows XP, when
Windows prompts you about creating a partition for Windows
during the initial installation process (Press C to create a new
partition for Windows), you should set aside 550MB of disc
space. For example, if your hard drive has 30GB disk space,
then you should create a partition of 29.4GB for Windows and
leave 550MB aside for Power Cinema.
2. Pre-installation.
2.1 Assuming you have already installed Windows XP, go
to [Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools] and
double-click Computer Management.
2.2 In Computer Management, click Disk Management.
You will see “Unallocated Partition” of about 550MB.
Right-click the Unallocated Partition and select “New
Partition”.