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HDD Installation
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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 manually enter 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.