Formatting a hard drive

boot to a setup diskette.

run fdisk, set your partition sizes
depending on what you want, you might want to setup extended and logical paritions

format c and then run setup.

If your BIOS accepts large drives, check the docs that came with the main board. And depending on if you can boot from the cdrom. If you use 98, me or 2000 you can select the size of c:\ and other drives. If you want to do it your self well great! Most folks dont want to. Email me and I can walk you through it. zlito@aol.com it can be a great learning exper. and I love doing it.

I've recently installed a 60 GB drive in one computer and an 80 GB drive in another. Both were with different manufacturers. One was to replace a crashed drive (master ide drive) amd the other was a secondary drive; both were in Win98SE computers.

In both instances I had to use the floppy disk that came with the drive before Win98Se would see the drive.

And in Both instances there was a flyer with a Quick Start guide that you should follow.

There should be no problem if you follow the directions that come with the drive.

(Incidentally the 80 GB is a Western Digital and the 60 GB was a Maxtor... no problems with either of them).

if you have a pc running beside this hdd , just pluge it in as slave , boot up windows , go into dos promt , fdisk , 5 , 2
. set you desire partition size , esc till you r in windows , restart it .

After restart , point to the 60gb hdd in my computer , format it .

If you wish to made the 60gb to the master ,
then you go into dospromt again , it will be C:\windows , typr cd\ then

xcopy c: d: /c/h/e/r/y

after finish copying , set the hdd as master boot it up with bootable disk , fdisk , 2 . ste it as active partition .

Restart . Waaalaaaaa

- confirm your M/B's BIOS settings so you know where you're plugging the new drive (primary or seconadry bus, master or slave role) and the capabilities of the BIOS (large drive support, etc.)
- unpack the drive and set the jumpers (either 'master'or 'slave' as appropriate)
- power the computer down, and unplug (some residual electricity lives on which can fry delicate electronics!)
- physically mount and connect the HDD: controller, and power
- power up the PC
- if this is just an additonal HDD to a running PC, no problem, otherwise you will need to boot with a suitable FDD or CD which needs FDISK.EXE and FORMAT.EXE, among whatever else is needed to be 'bootable'
- run FDISK.EXE to create a suitable partition, and make it active
-run FORMAT.EXE to prepare this partition for use

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