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Hard Drive Installation and Troubleshooting

The fifth screen looks like this. I suggest just clicking next until you get here:

  • If you're only using 2k/XP I would suggest using NTFS. If you're dual booting then Fat32 would probably be a good idea if the other OS can't read NTFS.
  • For NTFS the default cluster size is 4K which is pretty much the best tradeoff between speed and storage space.
  • Volume label is nothing other than the name you want it to be called.
  • Make sure you select quick format or else it'll be a while before you can use the disk :)
  • Click next it's just a summary of what you told it to do
  • Click next and soon the new drive is available.

Outro:

What else do you need to know? I think I covered everything... I decided to skip Fdisk since we're pretty much all using an OS that has built in partitioning software. (Win2k/XP + Linux) Next page is troubleshooting


Written By: Martin Krohn
Date: 4-2-04
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