Siemens PCIL43 Manual De Usuario

Maintenance and service 

 

11.2 Reinstalling the software 

 

SIMATIC Rack PC IL 43 

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Operating Instructions, Edition 09/2005, A5E00432875-01 

11.2.3.1  Setting up the partitions for Windows operating systems 

After you have installed a new hard disk, or if partitions are faulty, or when you wish to 

change the partitioning on your hard disk, you need to create or reconfigure partitions on the 

hard disk  

 

 

Caution 
When you delete or create partitions or logical DOS partitions, you lose all data on the hard 

disk. All partitions on the hard disk will be deleted. 

Microsoft recommends using the NTFS file system on hard disk partitions for Windows 

operating systems. Proceed as follows: 

Setting up partitions 

1.  Boot from the Recovery CD and then follow the screen instructions until the Recovery 

functions window is displayed. 

2.  Start the DiskPart program in the "Siemens SIMATIC Recovery“ window and enter the 

following commands in the displayed command interface: 

 

list disk 

Displays all available hard disks. 

select disk 0 

Selects the disk where you wish to change the configuration. 0 

selects the first hard disk. 

list partition 

Displays all partitions on the selected hard disk. 

clean 

Completely wipes the selected hard disk. All information stored there 

is lost. 

create partition primary size=n  Creates a primary partition with the n MB on the selected hard disk. 

Default values:  

n = 15000 for Windows 2000, XP, Windows Server 2003 

select partition 1 

Select the primary partition 

active 

Activates the selected partition 

exit 

Closes DiskPart. 

 
Additional DiskPart functions: 

 

Help 

Shows all available DiskPart commands. When a command is 

supplemented with other parameters, the command is described 

with additional information. 

Example: create partition help 

 

 

Note 
Once you have change the configuration of your hard disk with DiskPart, you will need to 

reboot the PC for the changes to go into effect. 
Boot again from the Recovery CD to format the partitions.