Working with Removable Drives 6-15
Writer: Karen Williams Saved by: Cheryl Love Saved date: 09/03/97 9:43 AM
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Using a Partitioned Hard Drive
The hard drive in your computer may be partitioned into up to
four logical drives.
Compaq partitions preinstalled hard drives with capacities greater
than 2 gigabytes (GB) because Microsoft Windows operating
systems using 16-bit file allocation tables do not recognize hard
drive capacities greater than 2 GB.
The first partition contains the Computer Setup and Diagnostics
software accessed by pressing
F10
at startup. The second two
partitions each have a capacity of 2 GB. The fourth partition
contains all additional capacity.
You will find all preinstalled software on drive C.
Any extended partition you may find on your computer, such as a
drive E, is formatted and ready for data.
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