Partitioning And Formatting The Drive; Partitioning And Formatting Your Drive Using The Nt File System For Windows Nt 4.0 - IBM OPTIONS SCSI Manual Del Usuario

6. Plug all power cords into electrical outlets.
The first time you restart your computer after installing the new drive, you
might have to use the SCSI adapter utility program to update the configuration
information.
Note: If you are installing the primary drive in an IBM Micro Channel
computer, you might have to restore the IML or System Partition using
your Reference and Diagnostic diskettes.
If you are installing a secondary drive in a Micro Channel computer,
you must configure the drive using your System Partition or Reference
diskette.
See your operating-system documentation for more information about
Micro Channel requirements.

Partitioning and formatting the drive

Attention: Partitioning and formatting a hard disk drive erases all user data
on the drive.
You must partition and format the hard disk drive before you can use it. If you
want to start your operating system from the primary drive, the drive must
have an active primary partition (typically C). You can use the remaining space
on the drive for an extended partition that you can divide into logical drives.
In most computers that have IDE hard disk drives, you cannot restart the
computer from the SCSI hard disk drive. Typically, only the primary partition
on the IDE drive (which contains the operating system and is used for startup)
can be active, and only the active partition can be used as the startup drive. If
your SCSI hard disk drive contains a primary partition, it must be inactive. If
you are unsure about restarting your computer from the SCSI hard disk drive,
see the documentation that comes with your computer and SCSI adapter.
Each operating system has unique instructions for partitioning and formatting
a drive. Be sure to see the documentation that comes with your operating
system before continuing with the following instructions.
Partitioning and formatting your drive using the NT file
system for Windows NT 4.0
If you add your drive to a computer that has the Windows NT 4.0 operating
system on an existing drive, do the following to partition and format your new
SCSI drive using the NT file system (NTFS) convention:
1. Turn on your computer.
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