Formatting The New Drive; Formatting A Primary Partition Using Dos - Gateway DX4320 Hardware Installation Manual

Chapter 6: Setting up the New Drive Manually

Formatting the New Drive

If you replaced your master (boot) drive, follow the instructions in this section
only if you want to format a primary or extended partition on the hard drive.
If you replaced or added an additional slave drive, follow the instructions in
this section to format your replacement hard drive or to format the partition
on the hard drive.

Formatting a primary partition using DOS

Perform this procedure only if you are creating a boot drive and need to format
the primary partition in DOS. Format all other partitions in Windows. If you
are not sure, use Windows. For instructions, see "Formatting a partition or slave
drive using Windows" on page 52.
Important
To format the primary partition on a boot drive:
1
Insert the System Restoration Kit CD or the System Restoration CD into the
CD or DVD drive.
Important
2
Restart your computer. The Main menu opens.
3
Close the Main menu.
4
Type format x: /s where x is the letter of the hard drive you have just
installed, then press E
50
The FORMAT program is not available in Windows XP. The
primary partition is formatted when Windows XP is
installed on the hard drive.
To start from a CD, you may need to make your CD or DVD
drive the primary boot device in the BIOS Setup utility. See
the documentation that came with your CD to make your
CD or DVD the primary boot device.
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