Abit BX6, User Manual

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General Discussion about HDD Installation B-5
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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
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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
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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.