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3-3 Hard Disk Drive Format
A hard disk must be formatted before it can be read from or written to.
To format a hard disk drive, you should carry out the following steps:
step1— Preformatting
The preformat utility is supplied by the system BIOS. You can press
the <E
SC
>, key quickly just after the RAM test to enter the SETUP
program. Choose item 2 from the initial screen to preformat a hard
disk. See Figure 3-1.
Step 2 — Partitioning
lf MS-DOS version 5.0 is the first operating system to be set up on your
computer, you can have your disk partitioned during the SETUP
program, or run “Fdisk” to partition your disk after you set up MS-DOS.
The “FDISK” command displays a serial of menus to help you partition
your hard disk for MS-DOS. With the “FDISK” command, you can:
• create a primary partition,
• create an extended partition,
• change the active partition,
• delete a partition,
• display partition data, and
• select the next fixed disk drive for partitioning on a system
with multiple fixed disks.
lf your system has more than one hard disk drive, you can use “Fdisk”
to create and modify partitions on any drive.
To work with a different disk drive, you must choose Change Current
Fixed
Disk Drive
(option 5) from the Fdisk main menu, and specify the
number of the drive you want to partition.
For more information about how to use creating DOS partition, see
Chapter 6: Managing Disks in MS-DOS
User’s Guide and Reference.
Note:
lf you have installed an old version of MS-DOS, your system may
partition the hard disk itself when you install MS-DOS version 5.0.
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Chapter 3: Operating Your System
Summary of Contents for Apex 386/40
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