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Chapter 4: Partition and Format
In order for your operating system to recognize and work with the disk drives
attached to your SATA300 TX4302 Controller card, the drives must be partitioned
and formatted.
• If your drives were previously partitioned and formatted they are ready to use
and you can skip this chapter
• If your drives have not been partitioned and formatted, you must do that job
before you can use them
The actions of partitioning and formatting create a file structure on the disk drives
with which your operating system can work. In the example below, we show how
this is done in Windows. A similar procedure is required for Linux PCs. However,
partitioning and formatting in Linux is non-automated, therefore please refer to
your system documentation for the exact procedure.
1. From the desktop, right-click on the My Computer icon and select Manage
from the popup menu. The Computer Management window opens.
2. From the left menu, click on Disk Management. The Disk Management
window opens with your new array identified as Disk 1. The Initialize Wizard
appears automatically.
Note
If you plan to boot your computer from this array, go to Windows
and Device Driver Installation under the Installation section for
instructions. The instructions here are for data arrays only.