User`s guide

DigiDrive Guide30
Formatting Partitions
To format the primary partitions in Windows NT:
1 From the Windows NT Disk Administrator, se-
lect the primary partition you are going to for-
mat.
2 From the Tools menu, choose Format. The
Format window opens.
3 Choose FAT File System (the FAT 16 file system
is referred to by NT as simply “FAT.”) Type a Vol-
ume Label Name. You can enter up to 14 charac-
ters.
4 Select Quick Format.
5 Click Start to begin formatting. The Format
warning dialog box appears.
6 Click OK. When formatting is complete, the
Format Complete dialog box appears
(Figure 29).
7 Click OK.
8 Repeat steps 1 through 8 until you have for-
matted all of the primary partitions you created.
You should now save the new disk configura-
tion to a floppy disk. See “Saving the Disk Con-
figuration” on page 31.
To format the primary partitions in Windows 2000:
1 From the Windows 2000 Disk Management
window, select the primary partition you want
to format.
2 Go to Action > All Tasks > Format.
3 In the Format window, enter a volume name.
4 Choose FAT 32 in the FileSystem pull-down
menu.
5 Select 32k from the Allocation Unit Size pull-
down menu.
6 Select Quick Format.
7 Click Start to begin formatting.
8 Repeat steps 1 through 5 until you have for-
matted all of the primary partitions you created.
Figure 27. Format dialog
Figure 28. Format warning
Figure 29. Format Complete confirmation