Siemens SINUMERIK 840Di - Partitioning of the Hard Disk

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15.1 General requirements
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SINUMERIK 840Di Manual (HBI) – 06.03 Edition
15.1.2 Partitioning of the hard disk
The PCU hard disk is divided into four partitions (three primary partitions and an
extended partition).
S For reasons of data security, the SINUMERIK 840Di system software, the
Windows NT system software and the Service software are installed in dif-
ferent partitions.
S A boot manager is provided so that you can boot the system either with Win-
dows NT (SINUMERIK 840Di user interface) or MS DOS (Service menu).
The diagram below shows the partitioning of the hard disk when the control sys-
tem is supplied:
C:
FAT16
Name: DOS
Contents: Tools
D:
FAT16
Name: TMP
Contents: Images,
Install,
Updates
E:
NTFS
Name: WinNT
Contents: WinNT 4.0
F:
NTFS
Name: 840D system
Contents: 840Di system
software,
further appl.
Primary partition Primary partitionPrimary partitionExtended partition
with logic drive
active
Fig. 15-1 Partitioning of the hard disk
1st partition/drive C:
Drive C: contains MS DOS 6.2, tools (e.g. Norton Ghostt) and scripts
implemented by the service menu.
2nd partition/drive D:
Drive D: contains:
– The Images directory with the images preinstalled and created by
the user
– The Install directory into which the software to be installed is to be
copied first before the installation process itself is carried out under
Windows NT.
– The Update directory for later installation of Windows NT system
software.
3rd partition/drive E:
Drive E: is reserved for the Windows NT system software.
4th partition/drive F:
Drive F: contains the Windows NT applications, e.g. the SINUMERIK
840Di system software.
Further applications, such as HMI system software, HMI-OEM applica-
tions, SIMATIC Manager S7/M7 or customer-specific applications (e.g.
user interfaces created using Protool/Pro MC), will also be installed here.
Partitions
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