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This procedure explains how to setup a new hard disk. Warning - if you are setting up a hard disk which contains data, the following procedure would completely erase your hard disk and the data would be unrecoverable. Before a new hard disk can be used it needs to be setup. This involves partitioning and formatting the hard disk. Windows 98 or ME boot disk contains the required software to perform this procedure. FDISK.EXE and FORMAT.COM are the files required in your bootable floppy disk. Start the partition and format procedure by booting your PC using a Windows boot disk. Make sure you set the BIOS so that the boot sequence is set to detect the floppy disk first. If your system has no problems booting you will be presented with a Windows boot disk menu. This gives you the option to start the system with or without CD-ROM support. At this stage you do not need the CD-ROM support, so choose the option to boot without CD-ROM support. You should end up in the MS DOS prompt A: (A drive). From A: command prompt type fdisk. You will be presented with following message:
Choose option 1 - Create primary DOS Partition. FDISK verifies the integrity of your drive and will ask you if want to use the maximum available size of your hard disk to create the primary partition and set it active. To keep things simple we will create one large partition. Choose "Y" to use maximum available space. When the partition has been created successfully you will be notified by the system. Your drive is now known as C: (C drive). Press "Esc" to return to the menu. Press "Esc" again to exit FDISK. You need to restart your system for the changes to take affect. Leave boot disk in the drive.When the system reboots, choose start without CD-ROM from the boot disk menu. While booting from floppy disk you might get error message like "Invalid media type reading drive C" this is OK for this stage as the hard disk is not formatted. From A: command prompt type format c:You will get a message saying "WARNING, ALL DATA ON NON-REMOVABLE DISK DRIVE C: WILL BE LOST. Proceed with Format (Y/N)?". Don't worry about the message as you do not have any data in the new hard disk. Choose "Y". The format will proceed and would show you a progress indicator. The time it takes to format a hard disk depends on the size and speed of the drive. This could be around 5-30 minutes. Once the format is complete you need to reset your system. You are now ready to install an operating system.
Creating a Windows 98 / ME boot disk Note: These steps are for users who have Windows 98 or Windows ME installed on the computer. An excellent feature of Windows 98/ME is its boot diskette. Using Windows to create you a Windows 98 boot diskette will give you all the needed files as well as CD-ROM support. To create a Windows 98 boot diskette, click Start / Settings / Control Panel / double-click the Add Remove programs icon / click the Startup Disk and create disk. Alternatively, to create a Windows 98 boot diskette manually from Windows, click Start / Shutdown and choose the option to restart the computer in a MS-DOS prompt. At the prompt, type: cd\windows\command Once at the C:\DOS directory, skip to copying files.
Copying additional files NOTE: When making a boot disk, if you are running "Stacker" or some kind of a DoubleSpace or drive swapper program, this could not work Once you are in DOS and at the correct directory as instructed in the above sections by operating system, you are ready to create your bootable diskette. Insert a diskette that does not contain any information (it will be erased). At the prompt, if you have MS-DOS 6.2 / Windows 3.x / Windows 95 / Windows 98, type: FORMAT A:/S If you have MS-DOS 5.0 type using double density 5.25" diskettes type: FORMAT A: /360 /S If you have MS- DOS 3.11 through 4.0 using double density 5.25" diskettes, type: FORMAT A: /4 /S
Once the diskette has been formatted and the system has been transferred, you should be returned to your original directory. In this directory, type: copy format*.* a: [PRESS ENTER] copy fdisk*.* a: [PRESS ENTER] copy mscdex*.* a: [PRESS ENTER] copy sys*.* a: [PRESS ENTER] copy edit*.* a: [PRESS ENTER] copy qbasic*.* a: [PRESS ENTER] (Win 95/98 users skip this line) copy debug*.* a: [PRESS ENTER] copy himem*.* a: [PRESS ENTER] copy emm386*.* a: [PRESS ENTER] If you are planning to use this diskette as a diskette to load games or you feel that you need mouse support, you will need to copy the mouse driver onto the boot diskette. The MS-DOS mouse driver is generally mouse.com / mouse.sys. Locate this file and copy it to your bootable diskette.
For CD-ROM support, visit our CD-ROM drivers page for information on loading your CD-ROM driver. Once you have copied the above files, create an autoexec.bat and a config.sys. Get to the floppy drive by typing A:, once at the floppy drive, type: copy con autoexec.bat [PRESS ENTER] @echo off [PRESS ENTER] LH A:\MSCDEX.EXE /D:CDROM [PRESS ENTER] (this line is used for your CD-ROM drive). LH A:\MOUSE.* [PRESS ENTER] (skip line if you did not copy mouse file, the * is either sys / com). Press and hold CTRL + Z - this should return ^Z. Once this is displayed, press enter to copy the file. copy con config.sys [PRESS ENTER] device=a:\himem.sys dos=high,umb device=a:\emm386.exe noems files=30 buffers=20 devicehigh=a:\oakcdrom.sys /d:CDROM (this line is used for your CD-ROM drive). Press and hold CTRL + Z - this should return ^Z. Once this is displayed, press enter to copy the file. Congratulations, after completing the above steps you should now have a bootable floppy diskette.
Choose option 1 - Create primary DOS Partition. FDISK verifies the integrity of your drive and will ask you if want to use the maximum available size of your hard disk to create the primary partition and set it active. To keep things simple we will create one large partition. Choose "Y" to use maximum available space. When the partition has been created successfully you will be notified by the system. Your drive is now known as C: (C drive). Press "Esc" to return to the menu. Press "Esc" again to exit FDISK. You need to restart your system for the changes to take affect. Leave boot disk in the drive.When the system reboots, choose start without CD-ROM from the boot disk menu. While booting from floppy disk you might get error message like "Invalid media type reading drive C" this is OK for this stage as the hard disk is not formatted. From A: command prompt type format c:You will get a message saying "WARNING, ALL DATA ON NON-REMOVABLE DISK DRIVE C: WILL BE LOST. Proceed with Format (Y/N)?". Don't worry about the message as you do not have any data in the new hard disk. Choose "Y". The format will proceed and would show you a progress indicator. The time it takes to format a hard disk depends on the size and speed of the drive. This could be around 5-30 minutes. Once the format is complete you need to reset your system. You are now ready to install an operating system.
Creating a Windows 98 / ME boot disk Note: These steps are for users who have Windows 98 or Windows ME installed on the computer. An excellent feature of Windows 98/ME is its boot diskette. Using Windows to create you a Windows 98 boot diskette will give you all the needed files as well as CD-ROM support. To create a Windows 98 boot diskette, click Start / Settings / Control Panel / double-click the Add Remove programs icon / click the Startup Disk and create disk. Alternatively, to create a Windows 98 boot diskette manually from Windows, click Start / Shutdown and choose the option to restart the computer in a MS-DOS prompt. At the prompt, type: cd\windows\command Once at the C:\DOS directory, skip to copying files.
Copying additional files NOTE: When making a boot disk, if you are running "Stacker" or some kind of a DoubleSpace or drive swapper program, this could not work Once you are in DOS and at the correct directory as instructed in the above sections by operating system, you are ready to create your bootable diskette. Insert a diskette that does not contain any information (it will be erased). At the prompt, if you have MS-DOS 6.2 / Windows 3.x / Windows 95 / Windows 98, type: FORMAT A:/S If you have MS-DOS 5.0 type using double density 5.25" diskettes type: FORMAT A: /360 /S If you have MS- DOS 3.11 through 4.0 using double density 5.25" diskettes, type: FORMAT A: /4 /S
Once the diskette has been formatted and the system has been transferred, you should be returned to your original directory. In this directory, type: copy format*.* a: [PRESS ENTER] copy fdisk*.* a: [PRESS ENTER] copy mscdex*.* a: [PRESS ENTER] copy sys*.* a: [PRESS ENTER] copy edit*.* a: [PRESS ENTER] copy qbasic*.* a: [PRESS ENTER] (Win 95/98 users skip this line) copy debug*.* a: [PRESS ENTER] copy himem*.* a: [PRESS ENTER] copy emm386*.* a: [PRESS ENTER] If you are planning to use this diskette as a diskette to load games or you feel that you need mouse support, you will need to copy the mouse driver onto the boot diskette. The MS-DOS mouse driver is generally mouse.com / mouse.sys. Locate this file and copy it to your bootable diskette.
For CD-ROM support, visit our CD-ROM drivers page for information on loading your CD-ROM driver. Once you have copied the above files, create an autoexec.bat and a config.sys. Get to the floppy drive by typing A:, once at the floppy drive, type: copy con autoexec.bat [PRESS ENTER] @echo off [PRESS ENTER] LH A:\MSCDEX.EXE /D:CDROM [PRESS ENTER] (this line is used for your CD-ROM drive). LH A:\MOUSE.* [PRESS ENTER] (skip line if you did not copy mouse file, the * is either sys / com). Press and hold CTRL + Z - this should return ^Z. Once this is displayed, press enter to copy the file. copy con config.sys [PRESS ENTER] device=a:\himem.sys dos=high,umb device=a:\emm386.exe noems files=30 buffers=20 devicehigh=a:\oakcdrom.sys /d:CDROM (this line is used for your CD-ROM drive). Press and hold CTRL + Z - this should return ^Z. Once this is displayed, press enter to copy the file. Congratulations, after completing the above steps you should now have a bootable floppy diskette.
