Technical information

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Now you should click PARTITION. You are now presented the partition Main form. If the drive had
already been partitioned you will see the values from the previous partitioning otherwise you will see
some computed default values.
The window has many fields that you can modify but the most useful ones are:
 The Size that specifies the size for each partition. Here you can enter the desired sizes for all the
partitions that you want to create. At any time you can click RECALCULATE or hit return key to
update the excess field (display the remaining space).
 Name is the name of the partitions. The Show Info... from the Atari desktop will display this value.
 The On column contains check marks for enabled partitions. Normally you always want to set a
checkmark for all the partitions otherwise they will not be accessible (hidden).
Note that the size displayed and entered values are in MEGS (1000
2
) and not in megabytes (1024
2
).
Click PARTITION ENTIRE HARD DISK: This writes the partition information based on values you
have entered into the MBR of the hard drive. It will also write the boot sector, FAT, and directory
information to each partition.
 WARNING: Before partitioning make sure you that you have a check mark in the On column for
all the partitions. Otherwise the program will warn you. You can click CANCEL and set On flags.
The program asks you to confirm and displays progress information …
At the end it should indicates that partitioning has terminated successfully. You are then offered to
print the partitions information and you probably want to click CANCEL.