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Only do this if you know what you are doing.

Fdisk and Formatting a new drive

BE VERY CAREFUL WITH THESE COMMANDS BECAUSE IF YOU DO IT WRONG YOU WILL LOSE ALL OF YOUR DATA. ON OTHER DRIVES INSTALLED I RECOMMEND YOU BACK UP YOUR SYSTEM NOW.. IF YOU HAVE ONLY THE ONE DRIVE IN YOUR SYSTEM AND IT IS NEW IGNORE THIS MESSAGE

You will need a boot disk, with the two commands used for this are FDISK.EXE and FORMAT.EXE on it.

Assuming you have now installed the new drive, you need to partition it, to do this Put your start up disk in the floppy drive and turn your computer on, when the computer has finished booting up you will see the command prompt A:\> type FDISK the press ENTER.

(If you have more than one hard drive in your computer use option 5 to change the current drive)

When you are asked if you want to create a partition larger than 512mb type 'y' for yes.

Choose Option 1 Create DOS Partition or Logical drive

choose to use all space on the drive

and select yes to confirm that option

Choose Option 2 Set active partition, and follow the options on screen (this applies to computers with one drive usually)

then exit fdisk

leaving the start up disk in the floppy drive, reboot your computer

now type the following

FORMAT C: /S press ENTER

answer yes to any prompts

it will then format to a 100%

then you will see volume label(11 characters, ENTER for none)?

you can choose to enter a name for your hard drive of up to 11 letters or press enter to not give it one. after which your drive is now ready to use