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<h2 class="title"><a name="resizeFATChoose"></a>Choose FAT Partition to Be
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<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.
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<p><a name="BId-resizeFATChoose-pa2"></a>Each partition
is listed as follows: "Linux name", "Windows name" "Capacity", "Filesystem
Type".
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<p><a name="BId-resizeFATChoose-pa3"></a>"Linux name" is
structured: "sd" followed by "hard drive number" and "partition number" (for
example, "sda1").
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<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:
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<p><a name="BId-resizeFATChoose-pa6"></a>"a" means "master hard
drive on the primary IDE controller";
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<p><a name="BId-resizeFATChoose-pa7"></a>"b" means "slave hard
drive on the primary IDE controller";
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<p><a name="BId-resizeFATChoose-pa8"></a>"c" means "master hard
drive on the secondary IDE controller";
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<p><a name="BId-resizeFATChoose-pa9"></a>"d" means "slave hard
drive on the secondary IDE controller".
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<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.
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<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>.
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