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Repartitioning and Restoring
To repartition and restore your 12- or 18-GB hard disk drive, you must complete these tasks.
you choose, you can repartition your hard disk drive into multiple partitions. (The first partition
must always be 6-GB.) Before you restore your system using the Product Recovery CD, you
must have two partitions on your hard disk drive.
T
create an MS-DOS boot diskette
T
delete drive D
T
delete the DOS partitions
T
create a primary DOS partition
T
create an extended DOS partition
T
format the partitions
T
reboot the system
T
restore the drive
T
run Partition Magic utility if a single partition is desired.
Note
Be sure to attach the AC adapter to your system before beginning the restore process.
Creating an MS-DOS Boot Diskette
1.
Insert a blank diskette into the diskette drive.
2.
At the C: prompt, type
Type
to proceed with formatting and press
3.
Y
Type
4.
cd \windows\command
5.
Copy the files, format.com and fdisk.exe, to drive A as follows. Type
copy format.com a:
copy fdisk.exe a:
Deleting Drive D
Turn the system on with the MS-DOS boot diskette installed in the diskette drive.
1.
At the A: prompt, type
2.
A message appears asking "Do you wish to enable large disk support? (Y/N)."
3.
Type
Y
and press
The FDISK Options menu appears.
Type
to delete the partition or logical DOS drive and press
4.
3
5.
Type
3
to delete logical DOS drives and press
6.
Type
D
2 Restoring the 12- or 18-GB Hard Disk Drive
Your hard disk drive is preinstalled at the factory as a single partition. If
format a: /s
and press
and press
Enter
and press
Enter
and press
fdisk
Enter
.
to delete drive D and press
and press
Enter
.
.
Enter
.
Enter
.
.
Enter
Enter
.
Enter
.
.
Enter
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