<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>Choose FAT Partition to Be Resized</title> <meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.73.2"> <link rel="start" href="index.html" title="Mandriva Linux Installation Guide"> <link rel="up" href="index.html" title="Mandriva Linux Installation Guide"> <link rel="prev" href="doPartitionDisks.html" title="Where to Install Mandriva on your Hard Disk"> <link rel="next" href="takeOverHdChoose.html" title="Choose Drive to Install Linux on"><style xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional" type="text/css"> <!-- body { font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px } table { font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px } --></style></head> <body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"> <div class="section" lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h2 class="title"><a name="resizeFATChoose"></a>Choose FAT Partition to Be Resized </h2> </div> </div> </div> <p><a name="BId-resizeFATChoose-pa1"></a><a class="indexterm" name="d5e582"></a> More than one <span class="application">Microsoft Windows<sup>®</sup></span> partition has been detected on your hard drive. Please choose the one you want to resize in order to install your new <span class="application">Mandriva Linux</span> operating system. </p> <p><a name="BId-resizeFATChoose-pa2"></a>Each partition is listed as follows: "Linux name", "Windows name" "Capacity", "Filesystem Type". </p> <p><a name="BId-resizeFATChoose-pa3"></a>"Linux name" is structured: "sd" followed by "hard drive number" and "partition number" (for example, "sda1"). </p> <p><a name="BId-resizeFATChoose-pa5"></a>"Hard drive number" is always a letter after "sd" that depends on the controller the drive is connected to. For example, with <acronym class="acronym">IDE</acronym> hard drives: </p> <div class="itemizedlist"> <ul> <li> <p><a name="BId-resizeFATChoose-pa6"></a>"a" means "master hard drive on the primary IDE controller"; </p> </li> <li> <p><a name="BId-resizeFATChoose-pa7"></a>"b" means "slave hard drive on the primary IDE controller"; </p> </li> <li> <p><a name="BId-resizeFATChoose-pa8"></a>"c" means "master hard drive on the secondary IDE controller"; </p> </li> <li> <p><a name="BId-resizeFATChoose-pa9"></a>"d" means "slave hard drive on the secondary IDE controller". </p> </li> </ul> </div> <p><a name="BId-resizeFATChoose-pa10"></a>With <acronym class="acronym">SCSI</acronym> hard drives, an "a" means "lowest <acronym class="acronym">SCSI</acronym> ID", a "b" means "second lowest <acronym class="acronym">SCSI</acronym> ID", etc. </p> <p><a name="BId-resizeFATChoose-pa11"></a>"Windows name" is the letter of your hard drive under <span class="application">Windows <sup>®</sup></span> (the first disk or partition is called "C:"). "Filesystem Type" is the name of the file system: <code class="literal">fat</code>, <code class="literal">vfat</code> (<acronym class="acronym">FAT32</acronym>), <code class="literal">ntfs</code>. </p> </div> </body> </html>