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                  <h2 class="title"><a name="drakxid-resizeFATChoose"></a>Choose FAT Partition to Be
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         <p><a name="BId-drakxid-resizeFATChoose-pa1"></a><a class="indexterm" name="d5e316"></a> More than one <span class="application">Microsoft</span> partition
            has been detected on your hard drive. Please choose the one which you want
              to resize in order to install your new <span class="application">Mageia</span>
              operating system.
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         <p><a name="BId-drakxid-resizeFATChoose-pa2"></a>Each partition is listed as
              follows: "Linux name", "Windows name", "Capacity".
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         <p><a name="BId-drakxid-resizeFATChoose-pa3"></a>"Linux name" is structured:
              "hard drive type", "hard drive number", "partition number" (for example,
              "sda1").
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         <p><a name="BId-drakxid-resizeFATChoose-pa4"></a>"Hard drive type" is "sd"
              
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         <p>This is standard for hard drives now and has nothing to do with SD
              Memory Cards. Hard drives were previously prefixed "hd" for IDE drives or
              "sd" for SATA drives but they are all now prefixed with "sd". 
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         <p><a name="BId-drakxid-resizeFATChoose-pa5"></a>"Hard drive number" is
              actually a letter and always follows "sd": 
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                  <p><a name="BId-drakxid-resizeFATChoose-pa6"></a>"a" means "first hard
                             drive";
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                  <p><a name="BId-drakxid-resizeFATChoose-pa7"></a>"b" means "second hard
                             drive";
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                  <p><a name="BId-drakxid-resizeFATChoose-pa8"></a>and so on...
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         <p><a name="BId-drakxid-resizeFATChoose-pa11"></a>"Windows name" is the letter
              of your hard drive under
              <span class="application">Windows<sup>&reg;</sup></span> (the first
              disk or partition is called "C:").
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