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Dell OptiPlex G1 Mini Tower Managed PC Reference and Installation Guide
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See “Primary Drives and Secondary Drives” in Chapter 2. After you update the
System Setup settings, reboot the system.
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Diagnostics and Troubleshooting Guide for information on running the
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Refer to the documentation that came with your operating system.
3DUWLWLRQLQJDQG/RJLFDOO\)RUPDWWLQJ 'LVN'ULYH EIDE hard-disk drives must be physically formatted, partitioned, and logically format- NOTE: On systems with hard-disk drives larger than 2 gigabytes (GB), create a pri- To partition and logically format your hard-disk drive, use the program(s) offered by For MS-DOS, use the fdisk and format commands to perform these procedures. The For OS/2, see the discussion on partitioning and logically formatting hard-disk drives in &$87,21,I\RXIRUPDW\RXUKDUGGLVNGULYHXQGHUWKH26+LJK3HUIRU PDQFH)LOH6\VWHP+3)6\RXFDQQRWUHIRUPDWWKHGULYHIRU06'26 ZLWKRXWORVLQJDOO+3)6GDWD6HH\RXU26GRFXPHQWDWLRQIRUGHWDLOV For Windows NT, see the discussion on partitioning and logically formatting hard-disk
ted before they can be used to store data. Every hard-disk drive from Dell is physically
formatted before it is sent to you.
mary 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 parti-
tion 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 sys-
tems (including Windows NT, when using a file allocation table [FAT] 16 file system)
do not support drive partitions larger than 2 GB.
your operating system.
fdisk and format commands are described in the MS-DOS reference documentation.
the documentation that came with the operating system.
drives in the documentation that came with the operating system.