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: designates the drive you are formatting. Type c: if you
are formatting the boot drive or if your system contains only
one drive. Type d: to format a second drive.
/v
tells the computer you want to label the drive after it is
formatted. Labeling the drive can prevent someone from ac-
cidentally deleting the partition and losing your data.
/s
tells the computer to make the drive bootable and copy the
necessary system files to the drive.
2. When the computer prompts you for a volume label, type any
valid name you want to designate the partition.
Transferring and using the installation
software
Before you partition and format the drive, you must transfer the
hard disc installation files on the drive to a bootable diskette in
Drive A. The diskette must have 300 Kbytes available. To create
a bootable diskette:
1. Put your DOS diskette into Drive A.
2. Type format a:/s.
The drive will read the DOS diskette and ask you to insert the
diskette you want to format into Drive A.
3. Insert the blank diskette. Press
ENTER. When the format is
complete, you can transfer the installation software files to the
diskette.
Transferring the installation software
1. Boot the computer with the diskette to which you want to
transfer the installation software files.
2. Enter the System Setup routine. (Refer to your computer
user’s guide. System Setup may be called Setup, BIOS Setup
or CMOS Setup.) If your computer uses an automatic setup
system, go to step 5.
3. Find the hard disc configuration in the System Setup screen.
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