[iyonix-support] Re: Please help -- formatting a new HD

  • From: "David J. Ruck" <druck@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 18:30:39 GMT

On 3 Feb 2007 "Anton Mans" <anton.mans@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I am about to reformat the HD that came with my Iyonix, and I would be most
> grateful to anyone who would be so kind as to lay out for me the steps I
> should follow.  I ask because I have a feeling that I saw somewhere that
> there are some quite catastrophic pitfalls along the path and, even though I
> have done this exercise before, I cannot remember what the potential
> problems are, and am consequently paralysed by fear!

The only problem is reformatting the wrong drive. You need to know which is
drive 4 and which is drive 5, then make sure put the correct number in to
!HFORM. The drive numbers appear in the title of the drive's iconbar menu. 

> I have copied the contents of the original drive onto the 250Gb drive, and
> intend to copy it back onto the original HD once I have done the
> partitioning.  

That should be all thats required.

Cheers
---Dave

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