Atari MEGAFILE 20 Owner's Manual page 27

CHAPTER
3
BOOTING
YOUR SYSTEM
WITH A
HARD
DISK
With a hard
disk installed,
you can boot your
system from
either
the
hard
disk or
a floppy disk.
Booting from the
hard
disk
is
the fastest
way
to start
your system, but
some programs
(typically
copy-protected
programs and
commercial
games)
require that
you boot
from
a floppy disk.
Booting
From a Hard
Disk
INSTALLING
THE
HARD
DISK
DRIVER
In
order
to
boot from the
hard
disk,
you must
run
the
HINSTALL program
from
the Atari
Hard
Disk
Utilities
disk.
This
program
installs
the
hard
disk
driver
file
SHDRIVER.SYS
in
the root directory
of
the
first
partition
on
the
active physical
hard
disk (typically
the
C
partition
on
drive unit
0).
When
SHDRIVER.SYS
is
installed,
your
system automatically
bypasses
the
floppy disk drive
and boots
directly
from the
hard
disk.
Do
not
remove
SHDRIVER.SYS
from the root directory;
it
must
reside there
in
order
for
your
system
to
boot from the
hard
disk.
To
install
the
hard
disk driver,
follow
these
steps.
1.
Make
sure your hard
disk
is
prepared
as described
in
Chapter
2.
2.
Display a
directory
of
a
working
copy
of
the
Atari
Hard
Disk
Utilities
disk
and
select
HINSTALL.
PRG
from the
HINSTALL
folder.
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