Elitegroup 223EI User Manual v.8

■ appendix C Using Power Cinema

APPENDIX▼ C

USING POWER CINEMA

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■ appendix C Using Power Cinema

Software Installation:

Power Cinema resides in a separate HDD partition to Windows.
When you press the “P” button while the notebook is off, the
computer boots to the Linux environment and launches the Powe r
Cinema application.
If you are required to re-install Windows O/S or when you have
purchased a new or upgraded HDD, you need to observe the
following steps before installing Power Cinema.

1. Partitioning. Assuming you are starting with a fresh hard drive
or the hard drive is removed of its previous partitions. You need
to reserve 500MB of disc space for Power Cinema. You could
either use a partition tool or as you install Windows XP, when
Windows prompts you about creating a partition for Windows
during the initial installation process (Press C to create a new

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partition for Windows), you should set aside 500MB of disc
space. For example, if your hard drive has 30GB disk space,
then you should create a partition of 29.5GB for Windows and
leave 500MB aside for Power Cinema.

Power Cinema needs to be on the 4th primary partition. Otherwise, the

Note:

system cannot boot to Power Cinema when you press the P button.