Abit IT5A User Manual page 75

General Discussion about HDD Installation
After you have partitioned the hard disk with FDISK, the system will
reboot automatically. Boot from a system floppy disk, and type
FORMAT C:/S
Using FORMAT: (DOS command)
This command is found in the DOS disks.
FORMAT is used to format the hard disk. The HDDs have to be
formatted before use. Don't forget to add /S after C:, otherwise the
hard disk will not be bootable after formatting.
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