DISK INFORMATION.

In this menu you have to choose a disk partition that contains an operating system you want to add. Position the highlight bar on the chosen partition and press the "Add" button. The configurator will search for an operating system in this partition and will add it upon finding.

The partition list holds the following information about each partition:

Disk number

The number of the hard disk that hosts the partition.

OEM-Record

A text string that is found in the boot record. Usually it is set by the operating system during the installation process. For example "MSDOS5.0" corresponds to MS-DOS, "MSWIN4.1" - Windows95, "PTSDOS60" - PTS-DOS.

Bootable partition

The partition has to have a certain sequence of bytes at the end of the boot record in order to be bootable. If the configurator does not find this sequence, it considers the partition as non-bootable, i.e. booting can not be done from this partition.

Partition type

Partitions can be of two types - primary partition and extended ones. There can not be more than four primary partitions. If there are extended partitions on the hard disk, than there can not be more than three primary partitions.

Size

Partition size in Mbytes.

File system

This field shows which file system is used in this partition.


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