User manual HITACHI TRAVELSTAR 5K80 REFERENCE GUIDE

[. . . ] Hitachi GST makes no warranty, implied or otherwise, regarding the performance or reliability of these companies or products. Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Partitioning and Formatting Guide version 1. 2 2 Windows 2000/XP hard drive setup during installation To begin the installation of Windows 2000 / XP, you will need to insert the bootable Windows CD into the CD drive. If you are installing from floppies, insert the first floppy into drive A:. One of the first things you will see during the installation process is "Press F6 if you need to install additional drivers. . . " The message only appears for 6 seconds before the installation continues. You will need to press F6 to load additional drivers if you are using a SCSI controller card, a SATA controller card, or a RAID controller card that is not natively supported by Windows. [. . . ] On the "Welcome to the New Partition Wizard" page, select Next. 3. On the "Select Partition Type" page, select the type of partition that you want to create, and then select Next. 4. On the "Specify Partition Size" page, specify the size in megabytes (MB) of the partition that you want to create, and then select Next. Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Partitioning and Formatting Guide version 1. 2 9 5. On the "Assign Drive Letter or Path" page, enter a drive letter or drive path, and then select Next. 6. On the "Format Partition" page, specify the formatting options that you want, and then select Next. 7. On the "Completing the Create Partition Wizard" page, verify that the options that you selected are correct and then select Finish. Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Partitioning and Formatting Guide version 1. 2 10 Installing a hard drive on Mac OS X To partition a drive in the Mac OS, you will need to use a program called Disk Utility. Go to the "Go" menu and select "Utilities". Open the hard drive and select the Applications folder. Another way to Select the Utilities folder and inside you will find Disk access Disk Utility: Utility. 2. When the Utilities folder opens, find the "Disk Utility" icon and double click. Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Partitioning and Formatting Guide version 1. 2 11 3. After selecting the drive click on the Partition Tab. Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Partitioning and Formatting Guide version 1. 2 12 5. Select the file system (format) for the partition Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Partitioning and Formatting Guide version 1. 2 13 7. This option will allow users to switch from OS X back to OS 9. Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Partitioning and Formatting Guide version 1. 2 14 Installing a Hard Drive to an Existing Linux System This guide uses FDISK to partition and format a drive. There are other utilities such as CFDISK and QTParted that will partition and format a drive. Note: If you are unsure of the syntax or switches of a command, you can always run the "man" command. Example: man fdisk. FDISK Command Syntax: (fdisk /dev/xxx )(xxx = the drive designation with which you wish to work. Example: hda, hdb, sda, sdb) Instructions for creating one partition using the entire capacity of the hard drive 1. Enter the above command with the correct device with which you wish to work. Choose the cylinder you wish the partition to start on or press Enter for the default. When specifying the size of the drive, you can enter it in terms of the last cylinder or the size in MB's or KB's. Press Q to exit FDISK Instructions for creating multiple partitions 1. Choose which cylinder you want to start the partition at or press "Enter" to select the default. When entering the size, use the following format: +<size>M or +<size>K 7. [. . . ] When you use FDISK to partition a hard disk that is larger than 64GB (64 gigabytes, or 68, 719, 476, 736 bytes) in capacity, FDISK does not report the correct size of the hard disk. This is only a cosmetic problem; the utility will partition the hard drive correctly. The Microsoft description of the issue and the patch for the 64-GB cosmetic limitation of FDISK can be found at the following URL: http://support. microsoft. com/default. aspx?scid=kb;en-us;263044 For an explanation of how MS-DOS and Windows 9. x assigns drive letters view Microsoft's Knowledge base article #51978: http://support. microsoft. com/default. aspx?scid=kb;en-us;51978 Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Partitioning and Formatting Guide version 1. 2 20 Initializing an ATA hard drive in Macintosh OS 8. X through 9. X · Go to the System Folder, Utilities, and open Drive Setup. Select the hard drive you want to initialize then select Initialize to proceed to the Initialize screen. [. . . ]