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parameters of all your drives. You don’t need to set
any hard disk parameter
.
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If one or several of your HDDs are old, and if you don’t
know their parameters, and you want to reconfigure
your drives, you can also use the
IDE HDD Auto
Detection
option in the CMOS to autodetect the drives
parameters
.
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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, y ou 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
