Preparing Your Hard Disk

This section assumes that you have a hard disk drive system physically installed in your main system unit. If you haven’t installed your hard disk drive yet, see Chapter 7, “Expanding Your System,” for information how to do this.

To begin, boot up your system using your MS-DOS as explained in Chapter 4, “Using MS-DOS.” After setting the date and time, enter this command:

A>C:

If the computer responds with:

C >

enter:

C > DIR

If a directory listing is displayed, even if there are no files shown, it means that your hard disk system has already been partitioned and formatted. You will see the COMMAND.COM file at the top of the directory listing if the MS-DOS active routines have been loaded onto the hard disk. If your hard disk has been partitioned and formatted, skip this section on installing your hard disk.

If the computer responded to the A > C: command with:

Invalid drive specification

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