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IBM Deskstar 40GV User Manual

IBM Deskstar 40GV
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9
Partition and format with Disk Manager 2000 Easy Installation Software
Note: You may choose to use FDISK to partition and format your hard drive. Refer to the section entitled
FDISK and Format in the Appendix for more information.
Due to system and hard drive variations, the Disk Manager 2000 screens displayed may be
different than those presented here.
Note: Many BIOS setups refer to the drives in a system as 0, 1, and so on. Disk Manager 2000 refers to
drives as 1, 2, etc.
1. Boot the drive by one of the following methods.
Booting from the CD-ROM (for systems that are configured to boot from a CD)
a. Begin with your system turned on. (This applies power to the system CD-ROM drive that
allows you to open and to insert the CD-ROM disk.)
b. Insert the self-booting Disk Manager 2000 CD-ROM into the drive.
c. Restart your system.
d. Boot from the CD-ROM.
e. Skip the following paragraph about booting from a floppy diskette.
Booting from a floppy diskette containing Disk Manager 2000 (in the case where your system will
not boot from a CD-ROM)
a. Begin with your system turned off.
b. Insert the self-booting Disk Manager 2000 floppy diskette into the floppy disk drive.
c. Turn on your system.
Note: See the FAQ section of this manual for instructions on creating a bootable Disk Manager 2000
diskette.
2. Select “Disk Manager” from the Startup menu.

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IBM Deskstar 40GV Specifications

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BrandIBM
ModelDeskstar 40GV
CategoryStorage
LanguageEnglish

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