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Fdisk & Format a hard drive
The first screen you'll see is this.......
Your computer has a disk larger than 512 MB. This version of
Windows includes improved support for large disks, resulting in
more efficient use of disk space on large drives, and allowing
disks over 2 GB to be formatted as a single drive.
IMPORTANT: If you enable large disk
support and create any new
drives on this disk, you will not be able to access the new
drive(s) using other operating systems, including some versions
of
Windows 95 and Windows NT, as well as earlier versions of Windows
and MS-DOS. In addition, disk utilities that were not designed
explicitly for the FAT32 file system will not be able to work with
this disk. If you need to access this disk with other operating
systems or older disk utilities, do not enable large drive support.
Do you wish to enable large disk
support (Y/N)...........? [Y]
Select "Y" if you wish to partition using the FAT32 file
system or "N" if you want to use the FAT16 file system.
»» Take note that the following instructions are for
systems with only one hard drive present. The same info applies
as long as you are sure that you have changed the Current Fixed
Disk using the # 5. option (NOT SHOWN HERE) and select the appropriate
physical hard drive in question before moving on to step 4. The
next screen is this..........
FDISK Options Current fixed disk
drive: 1
Choose one of the following:
1. Create DOS partition or Logical
DOS Drive
2. Set active partition
3. Delete partition or Logical DOS Drive
4. Display partition information
Enter choice: [1]
Press ESC to exit FDISK
Press 3 to choose Delete Partition
Or Logical DOS Drive, and then press ENTER. The Delete DOS Partition
Or Logical DOS Drive screen appears.
Delete DOS Partition or Logical DOS Drive
Current fixed disk drive: 1
Choose one of the following:
1. Delete Primary DOS Partition
2. Delete Extended DOS Partition
3. Delete Logical DOS Drive(s) in the Extended DOS Partition
4. Delete Non-DOS Partition
Enter choice: [ ]
Press ESC to return to FDISK Options
If any of your partitions were created with a third-party disk-partitioning
utility or installation program, press 4 to choose Delete Non-DOS
Partition, and then press ENTER. If all your partitions were created
with MS-DOS, press ESC to return to the FDISK Options screen, then
skip to step 10 of this procedure.
If you chose option 4, the Delete Non-DOS Partition screen appears.
Delete Non-DOS Partition
Current fixed disk drive: 1
Partition Status Type Volume Label
Mbytes System Usage
C: 1 A PRI DOS 23 FAT16 33%
2 Non-DOS 23 33%
3 EXT DOS 23 33%
Total disk space is 69 Mbytes (1
Mbyte=1048576 bytes)
WARNING! Data in the deleted Non-DOS
Partition will be lost.
What non-DOS partition do you want to delete..? [1]
Press ESC to return to FDISK Options
Type the number of the partition
you want to delete, and then press ENTER.
To confirm the deletion, press Y, and then press ENTER.
Press ESC to return to the FDISK Options screen.
Repeat steps 4 - 8 if you have any other partitions that were created
with a third-party disk-partitioning utility or installation program.
The FDISK Options menu should now be on your screen. If you have
a partition that was created with MS-DOS, press 3 to choose Delete
Partition Or Logical DOS Drive and press ENTER.
If you chose option 3 on the FDISK Options screen, the Delete DOS
Partition Or Logical DOS Drive screen appears.
If you have a logical drive, press 3 to choose Delete Logical DOS
Drive(s) In The Extended DOS Partition and press ENTER. Then the
Delete Logical DOS Drive(s) In The Extended DOS Partition screen
appears. If you don't have any logical drives, skip to step 19.
Delete Logical DOS Drive(s) in the
Extended DOS Partition
Drv Volume Label Mbytes System Usage
D: 15 FAT12 65%
E: 8 FAT12 35%
Total Extended DOS Partition size
is 23 Mbytes (1 MByte=1048576
bytes)
WARNING! Data in a deleted Logical
DOS Drive will be lost.
What drive do you want to delete.........................? [ ]
Press ESC to return to FDISK Options
Type the letter of the drive you
want to delete and press ENTER.
Type the volume label if there is one and press ENTER.
To confirm the deletion, press Y and press ENTER.
If there are other logical drives you want to delete, repeat steps
12 - 14 above.
When all logical drives have been deleted, press ESC. An information
screen appears.
Press ESC again to return to the FDISK Options screen.
Press 3 to choose Delete Partition Or Logical DOS Drive and press
ENTER. The Delete DOS Partition Or Logical DOS Drive screen appears.
Press 2 to choose Delete Extended DOS Partition and press ENTER.
The Delete Extended DOS Partition screen appears. If you don't have
any extended DOS partitions, skip to step 21.
Delete Extended DOS Partition
Current fixed disk drive: 1
Partition Status Type Volume Label
Mbytes System Usage
C: 1 A PRI DOS 23 FAT16 33%
2 EXT DOS 23 33%
Total disk space is 69 Mbytes (1
Mbyte=1048576 bytes)
WARNING! Data in the deleted Extended
DOS Partition will be lost.
Do you wish to continue (Y/N)........................? [N]
Press ESC to return to FDISK Options
To confirm that you want to delete
the extended DOS partition, press Y and press ENTER.
Press ESC to return to the FDISK Options screen.
Press 3 to choose Delete Partition Or Logical DOS Drive and press
ENTER. The Delete DOS Partition Or Logical DOS Drive screen appears.
Press 1 to choose Delete Primary DOS Partition and press ENTER.The
Delete Primary DOS Partition screen appears.
Delete Primary DOS Partition
Current fixed disk drive: 1
Partition Status Type Volume Label
Mbytes System Usage
C: 1 A PRI DOS 23 FAT16 33%
Total disk space is 69 Mbytes (1
Mbyte=1048576 bytes)
WARNING! Data in the deleted Primary
DOS Partition will be lost.
What primary partition do you want to delete..? [1]
Enter volume label...............................? [ ]
Press ESC to return to FDISK Options
Press ENTER to delete your primary partition.
Type the volume label, if there is one, and press ENTER.
To confirm the deletion, press Y and press ENTER.
Press ESC to return to the FDISK Options screen.
» » Note that in Win9x it is neccessary to reboot after
deletion of partitions in order for the changes to take effect.
Please reboot before moving on to step 28. Answer as you wish to
the question in Steps 2 & 3 and return to Step 28.
Press ENTER to choose Create A DOS Partition Or Logical DOS Drive.
The Create DOS Partition Or Logical DOS Drive screen appears.
Create DOS Partition or Logical DOS
Drive
Current fixed disk drive: 1
Choose one of the following:
1. Create Primary DOS Partition
2. Create Extended DOS Partition
3. Create Logical DOS Drive's in the Extended DOS Partition
Enter choice: [1]
Press ESC to return to FDISK Options
Press ENTER to choose Create Primary DOS Partition. The Create Primary
DOS Partition screen appears.
Create Primary DOS Partition
Current fixed disk drive: 1
Do you wish to use the maximum available
size for a Primary DOS
Partition and make the partition active (Y/N)..............?[Y]
Press ESC to return to FDISK Options
Press ENTER to specify the maximum
size for the partition and make the partition active.
Make sure your Start-up disk is in drive A and press any key.
» » Please note that in Win9x you must re-boot in order
for any Fdisk changes to take effect. Please exit Fdisk and reboot
before attempting to format the drive.
Formatting Your Hard Disk
You cannot use your hard disk until
you format it. To format your hard disk:
1. Make sure you boot Win9x from
your Startup diskette.
2. Type the following at the MS-DOS command prompt and press ENTER
format <drive>: /U /C /S where
<drive> is your hard disk drive.
For example, if your hard disk drive
is drive C, type the following command:
format c: /U /C /S
KEY:
/U = Unconditional Format - ignores
deleted cluster fragments
/C = Re-tests currently marked bad clusters for recovery
/S = Transfers necessary system files so disk can boot
3. Press Y and press ENTER to proceed
with formatting.
4. Once formatting is complete, type a volume label if you want
one and press ENTER |
