![]() ![]() ![]() 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. Another menu will present the following options.Ĭhoose option 1 – Create primary DOS Partition. From A: command prompt type fdisk. You will be presented with following message:Ĭhoose “Y” to enable large disk support.You will now be presented with the FDISK main menu as shown below.įrom the menu, choose option 1 – Create DOS partition or Logical DOS drive. You should end up in the MS DOS prompt A: (A drive). At this stage you do not need the CD-ROM support, so choose the option to boot without CD-ROM support. This gives you the option to start the system with or without CD-ROM support. If your system has no problems booting you will be presented with a Windows boot disk menu. Make sure you set the BIOS so that the boot sequence is set to detect the floppy disk first. Start the partition and format procedure by booting your PC using a Windows boot disk. FDISK.EXE and FORMAT.COM are the files required in your bootable floppy disk. ![]() Windows 98 or ME boot disk contains the required software to perform this procedure. This involves partitioning and formatting the 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.īefore a new hard disk can be used it needs to be setup. This procedure explains how to setup a new hard disk. ![]()
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