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Your Fujitsu LifeBook Series notebook hard disk drive 
capacity is dependent on which model you are using. 
Some notebooks may also contain a removable hard disk 
drive in addition to the internal hard disk drive. (See 
Specifications on page 97 for more information)

The internal hard disk drive is formatted, or initialized, 
at the factory. You do not need to format it under 
normal circumstances. If you decide to reformat due to 
corruption or upgrade, please refer to your operating 
system documentation for the correct procedure. 

Before you reformat your hard disk drive, please note:

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Any data that currently resides on your hard disk drive 
must be backed-up to floppy disks or other data 
storage media, or it will be permanently lost. These 
back-up disks can then be used to re-install and restore 
your data. (See your operating system manual for more 
information on backing-up your data files)

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All application software that is installed on the
hard disk drive, must be re-installed from the
original source.

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The factory-installed software, including the operating 
system, can be restored using the Recovery CD that 
came with your notebook.

Your notebook may contain a modular hard disk drive in 
addition to the internal hard disk drive. If you notebook 
has a modular hard disk drive you will need to format 
the drive before using it.

1. Boot the system. When the Fujitsu logo appears press 

the [F8] key to bring up the Microsoft Windows 
Startup Menu.

2. Select option 6 command prompt only, using the arrow 

key and press [Enter].

3. At the C:> prompt, type Fdisk and

press [Enter].

4. You will see a long message appear on the screen. At 

the bottom of the message you will see the option, 
Do you wish to enable large disk 

support (Y/N)...? [N]. 

Type Y to change 

the option in the last statement to yes and press 
[Enter] to continue.

5. You are now in the FDISK Options menu. Type 5

to select Change Current fixed disk drive and
press [Enter].

6. The next Change Current Fixed Disk Drive screen 

displays info for both Primary(C:) & Secondary (D:) 
Disks. Type 2 at the Fixed Disk Drive Number and
press [Enter].

 7.  You are now back in the FDISK Options menu

for drive D:. Press 4 in the Enter Choice: [ ] field
to go the Display partition information option
and press [Enter].

8. If the message No partitions defined 

appears at the bottom of the Display Partition Infor-
mation screen, press [Esc].

9. You are now back in the FDISK Options menu. Press 

1 to change the Enter Choice: [ ] field to the Create 
DOS partition or Logical DOS Drive option (it 
should already be set to 1 as the default) and press 
[Enter].

10. Press [Enter] again to select the default setting (#1) 

Create Primary DOS Partition.

11. Fdisk will verify drive integrity and ask you if you 

wish to use the maximum available size for Primary 
DOS Partition. Type Y for Yes. A message appears 
“Primary DOS partition created, drive letters 
changed as added.” Press Esc to continue. In this case 
the partition usage will be 100% or 10GB, this 
number may vary depending on your drive size.

12. You are now back in the FDISK Options menu. Press 

4 to display your partitions info.

Reformatting the hard disk drive will erase all of the 
data currently stored on it, including the operating
system and installed programs.