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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!-- Converted by db4-upgrade version 1.0 -->
<section condition="extended" userlevel="expert" version="5.0"
         xml:id="drakxid-resizeFATChoose"
         xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
         xmlns:ns5="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"
         xmlns:ns4="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
         xmlns:ns3="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
         xmlns:ns2="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
         xmlns:ns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook">
  <info>
    <title xml:id="BId-drakxid-resizeFATChoose-ti1">Deprecated - Choose FAT Partition to Be
    Resized</title>
  </info>

  <para xml:id="BId-drakxid-resizeFATChoose-pa1"><indexterm>
      <primary>partitions</primary>

      <secondary>resize</secondary>
    </indexterm> More than one <application>Microsoft</application> partition
  has been detected on your hard drive. Please choose the one which you want
  to resize in order to install your new <application>Mageia</application>
  operating system.</para>

  <para xml:id="BId-drakxid-resizeFATChoose-pa2">Each partition is listed as
  follows: "Linux name", "Windows name", "Capacity".</para>

  <para xml:id="BId-drakxid-resizeFATChoose-pa3">"Linux name" is structured:
  "hard drive type", "hard drive number", "partition number" (for example,
  "sda1").</para>

  <para xml:id="BId-drakxid-resizeFATChoose-pa4">"Hard drive type" is "sd"
  </para>

  <para>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". <!-- (mentioning SCSI doesn't seem needed anymore - Marja) if it is a <acronym>SCSI</acronym> hard drive.
I rewrote it and added it back - MrsB--></para>

  <para xml:id="BId-drakxid-resizeFATChoose-pa5">"Hard drive number" is
  actually a letter and always follows "sd": <itemizedlist>
      <listitem>
        <para xml:id="BId-drakxid-resizeFATChoose-pa6">"a" means "first hard
        drive";</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para xml:id="BId-drakxid-resizeFATChoose-pa7">"b" means "second hard
        drive";</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para xml:id="BId-drakxid-resizeFATChoose-pa8">and so on...</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist></para>

  <para xml:id="BId-drakxid-resizeFATChoose-pa11">"Windows name" is the letter
  of your hard drive under
  <application>Windows<superscript>®</superscript></application> (the first
  disk or partition is called "C:").</para>
</section>