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Step 12
System Boot Up For the First-Time
To ensure your system completedly and correctly installed, please refer to the
above installation steps once again before first booting up your system.
1. Insert a system-bootable floppy disk (DOS 6.2X, Windows 9X/NT, or
others), which contains the FDISK and FORMAT utilities.
2. Turn on the system power.
3. First, you need to use the FDISK utility to create a primary partition of the
hard disk. You can also add an extended partition if your primary parti-
tion does not use all of the available hard disk space. If you choose to
add an extended partition, you will have to create one or more logical
partitions to occupy all the space available to the extended partition. The
FDISK utility will assign a drive letter (i.e. C:, D:, E:,......) to each partition
shown in the FDISK program. After the FDISK procedure, reboot your
system by using the same disk.
Note : DOS 6.2X and Windows 95A can only support up to 2.1GB of HDD
partition. If you use the FDISK utility with one of the operating systems
mentioned above, you can only install your HDD into any
partitions no larger than 2.1GB.
4. Now, use the FORMAT utility to format all the partitions you've created.
When formatting the primary partition (C:), key in the command, "FOR-
MAT C:/S."
Note : FORMAT C:/S can transfer all the necessary system files into the pri-
mary partition of your hard disk. Afterwards, your HDD will become
a bootable drive.
5. Install all the necessary drivers for CD-ROM, Mouse, etc.
6. Setup the complete operating system according to your OS installation
guide.
