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If one or several of your HDD are old, and if you don' t want
to erase the data stored in your drives, you will have to
remember the parameters (Type, Cylinders, Heads, Sectors,
Mode) of the drive(s) you don' t want to erase. After you have
used the IDE HDD Auto Detection option in the CMOS,
enter the Standard CMOS Setup Menu to change the
settings of the related hard disk drive.
Software use:
The basic step in using a hard disk drive is to make a HDD Low
Level Format, than run FDISK, and than FORMAT the drive.
Most of present HDD have already been subjected to low level
format at the factory, so you probably can skip this operation.
Boot with a bootable floppy disk, then enter FDISK.
Using FDISK: (DOS command)
This command is found in the DOS disks.
FDISK is a tool used to organize and to partition the hard disk.
The hard disk must have been partitioned before use. You can
create one unique partition on the hard disk, or create several
partition and use a different Operating System on each partition.
Just don' t forget that you have to specify an Active partition,
otherwise your hard disk will not be bootable. For further
information about FDISK, refer to the FDISK section in the
DOS user' s manual.
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 HDD 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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