FIC A360 Installation and Upgrade, Installing Windows 98 / Me / 2000 from CD / DVD ROM

Installation and Upgrade

1.PHDISK /Create /Partition - you can choose to run Suspend-to-Disk and save your work into an allocated fixed disk partition. This option should be done before partitioning and formatting your hard disk. The advantage of this option is that it is more secure since the files are saved in a separate partition and has no risk of being deleted. The disadvantage of this is that you need to allocate enough disk partition for future memory upgrade. The STD partition should always be larger than the system memory RAM.

2.PHDISK /Create /File - you can also choose to run Suspend-to-Disk and save your work into a STD file. You do not need to allocate an extra disk partition when running this option. The advantage of this is that you do not need to allocate or waste extra disk partition. The disadvantage of this option is that it is less secure since there is risk of deleting the STD file although the file is hidden.

It’s better to choose action 2 to create the SAVE2DSK.BIN file. The program will ask you to input the size of this file. You just only input the value according to the suggestion. After executing “PHDisk.exe”, you will get some information about the SAVE2DSK.BIN file created by PHDISK program. The size of this file will depend on the installed RAM memory of your computer. This file also is hidden and has read-only attributes.

After doing so or executing it next time, the program will ask you to choose one action from (1,2,3,4). Action 1 is “Create File”. Action 2 is “Delete File”. Action 3 is “Reboot”. Action 4 is “Exit”. Choose action 1 to create another SAVE2DSK.BIN file or action 2 to delete it.

After PHDISK has completed the STD partition, you will be prompted to reboot the system.

Whenever you upgrade the memory, you need to delete the existing STD file and create a new one according to the new memory size. Run PHDISK and choose action 2 to delete existing STD file.

2.2.2Installing Windows 98 / Me / 2000 from CD / DVD ROM

This section provides Windows 98 / Me / 2000 installation guide from the CD-ROM or DVD- ROM device.

Installing Windows 98 / Me from CD-ROM / DVD-ROM

The easiest way to install Windows 98 / Me is to boot from Windows 98 start-up disk. With Windows 98 / Me start-up disk, you don't need to install CD-ROM driver since the start-up disk can support virtually all CD-ROM device. Insert Windows 98 / Me Installation CD into CD-ROM drive and run "setup.exe".

If you don't have Windows 98 / Me start-up disk, you need to install CD-ROM /DVD-ROM driver under DOS. Then, insert Windows 98 / Me Installation CD into CD-ROM drive and run "setup.exe".

Installing Windows 2000 from CD-ROM / DVD-ROM

To install Windows 2000 directly from your CD-ROM, insert the Windows 2000 installation CD into CD-ROM drive with following the instructions on the screen to finish the installation. You could go to Boot menu of BIOS setup menu to confirm the priority of boot device. Use arrow key to select "ATAPI CD-ROM Drive", and then use "+" or "-" to move it to the top. Go to Exit menu and select “Exit Saving Changes”.

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