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3-3 Hard Disk Drive Format
A hard disk must be formatted before it can be read from or written to.
If your hard disk requires this, you should carry out the following steps.
Step 1 — Preformat
The preformat utility is supplied by the system BIOS. You can press
<Esc> key quickly just after the RAM test to enter the SETUP program.
Choosing item 2 from the initial screen to preformat hard disk. See
Figure 3-l.
Step 2 — Partition
This process creates DOS partitioning on a preformatted hard disk
five. The DOS command "FDISK" handles this partitioning process.
Insert your DOS diskette in drive A and type a: to get A prompt. Then
type:
The "FDISK" command displays a serial of menus to help you partition
(our hard disk for MS-DOS, With the "FDISK" command, you can:
If your hard disk is 4OMB, you may have partitions of up to 33MB in
size. 33MB is the maximum space for a partition allowed by DOS.
For more information about how to use creating DOS partition, see
Appendix D in MS-DOS User's Guide and Reference.
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FDISK
create a primary partition,
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create an extended partition,
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change the active partition,
delete an partition,
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display partition data, and
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• select the next fixed disk drive for partitioning on a system
with multiple fixed disks.
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