Troubleshooting guide

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NOTE: If a setup password has been assigned by someone else, contact your
network administrator for information on resetting the chassis intrusion detector.
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See “Drives: Primary and Secondary” in Chapter 2. After you update the System
Setup settings, reboot the system.
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See your
Diagnostics and Troubleshooting Guide
for information on running the
Dell Diagnostics and troubleshooting any problems that may occur.
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Refer to the documentation that came with your operating system.
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EIDE hard-disk drives must be physically formatted, partitioned, and logically format-
ted before they can be used to store data. Every hard-disk drive from Dell is physically
formatted before it is sent to you.
NOTE: On systems with hard-disk drives larger than 2 gigabytes (GB), create a pri-
mary partition of 2 GB and divide the remaining capacity into partitions of 2 GB or
less. For example, a system with a 2.5-GB hard-disk drive would have a primary parti-
tion of 2 GB (drive C) and a second partition of 500 megabytes (MB) (drive D).
Hard-disk drives must be partitioned this way because MS-DOS–based operating sys-
tems (including Windows NT when you use a file allocation table [FAT] 16 file system)
do not support drive partitions larger than 2 GB.
To partition and logically format your hard-disk drive, use the program(s) offered by
your operating system.
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, use the fdisk and format commands to perform these procedures. The
fdisk and format commands are described in the MS-DOS reference documentation.
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, see the discussion on partitioning and logical formatting in the documenta-
tion that came with the operating system.
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