Compaq d338 - Microtower Desktop PC Management Manual page 21

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4. Plug in the power cord and turn on the computer. As soon as the
monitor light turns green, press the
computer setup utility.
5. Go to Advanced/PCI devices to disable both the IDE and SATA
controllers. When disabling the SATA controller, note the IRQ to
which the controller is assigned. You will need to reassign the
IRQ later. Exit setup, confirming the changes.
SATA IRQ: __________
6. Insert a bootable DOS diskette with FDISK.COM and either
SYS.COM or FORMAT.COM into a diskette drive and turn on
the computer to boot to the DOS diskette.
7. Run FDISK and delete any existing partitions on the USB flash
media device. Create a new partition and mark it active. Exit
FDISK by pressing the
8. If the system did not automatically restart when exiting FDISK,
Ctrl Alt Del
press + +
9. At the A:\ prompt, type
will format the USB flash media device, add the system files, and
ask for a Volume Label.
Enter
10. Press for no label or enter one if desired.
11. Turn off the computer and unplug the power cord. Open the
computer and re-install any PCI cards that were previously
removed. Close the computer cover.
12. Plug in the power cord, remove the diskette, and turn on the
computer.
13. As soon as the monitor light turns green, press the
into the computer setup utility.
14. Go to Advanced/PCI Devices and re-enable the IDE and SATA
controllers that were disabled in step 5. Put the SATA controller
on its original IRQ.
15. Save the changes and exit. The computer will boot to the USB
flash media device as drive C.
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F10
key to go into the
Esc
key.
to reboot to the DOS diskette.
FORMAT C: /S Enter
and press . Format
F10
key to go
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