2.Some CMOS Setup utilities might have a boot sequence option. If yours does, verify that the boot sequence is A: then C:. Not all CMOS setup utilities have this option.
3.You correctly partitioned (via the operating system FDISK utility) and formatted (via the operating system FORMAT utility) your newly installed hard drive.
4.You made your primary drive bootable (formatted with /S option).
5.During the FDISK procedure you marked your bootable partition active.
Q: My drive will not spin up, or it spins down after a few seconds.
A:Ensure that:
1.Your power connector is secure and working properly.
2.The orientation of pin socket 1 on the
3.The drive type in your CMOS setup is correct.
Q:I don’t see the full capacity of my hard drive when installing DOS.
A:Two issues affect the installation of your hard drive: 1) some systems do not properly recognize hard drives that have more than 4095 cylinders (drives larger than 2.1 GB); 2) most system BIOS dated before 1994 don’t recognize drives greater than 528 MB. To overcome this limitation, either install
BIOS Sources: |
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Micro Firmware |
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(Phoenix BIOS only) | (405) |
Phoenix | (617) |
Unicore | (508) |
If you installed
Q:The reported capacity of my hard drive is MUCH smaller than Table 1 shows it should be.
A:Your system BIOS improperly handles hard drives that report greater than 1024 cylinders. Use the supplied installation software to get the full capacity of your drive.
Q: How much memory does
A:5 KB.
Q: How can I get
A:Use the
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Q:I am installing a new Western Digital drive onto a second IDE controller card (secondary port). How do I jumper it?
A:Refer to the standard jumper options shown in Figure 1. If it’s the only drive on the cable, jumper it as single. If the drive is paired with another IDE device, jumper it as master or slave.
Q: Should I partition my hard drive?
Caution: Repartitioning an existing drive destroys all the data. If repartitioning an existing drive, be sure to create a backup first.
If your hard drive is 2.5 GB or larger, you must create multiple partitions.
Western Digital does not have a recommendation for the optimal number of partitions. The following information will help you make the decision.
In DOS, every file that is stored gets at least one allocation unit (cluster), regardless of the file size. The size of the cluster increases with the size of the partition. For example, if you have a 1024 MB partition, the cluster size is 32 KB. This means that even a
The only way to reduce the cluster size is to reduce the partition size. The breakdown for DOS 5.0 and above follows:
FDISK Partition Size* | Cluster Size | |
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0 - 127 MB | 2 KB | |
128 | - 255 MB | 4 KB |
256 | - 511 MB | 8 KB |
512 - 1023 MB | 16 KB | |
1024 | - 2047 MB | 32 KB |
*FDISK reports binary megabytes (1,048,576 bytes), not decimal megabytes (1,000,000 bytes). All numbers above are shown in binary megabytes.
Note: The maximum partition that can be created in DOS is 2048 MB.
Q: Will my drive work with Windows 95?
A:Yes. Your drive has been thoroughly tested in the Western Digital FIT Lab and is compatible with Windows 95.
Q: I have a 2.5 GB or larger drive. Can I create one partition only?
A:No. DOS has a 2.1 GB partition limitation. You must have at least two partitions to access the full capacity of your drive.
Q:What will happen if I install
A: