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drive: designates the drive you are formatting. Type c: if you are formatting the boot drive or if your system contains only one drive. Type d: to format a second drive.
/v tells the computer you want to label the drive after it is formatted. Labeling the drive can prevent someone from ac- cidentally deleting the partition and losing your data.
/s tells the computer to make the drive bootable and copy the necessary system files to the drive.
2.When the computer prompts you for a volume label, type any valid name you want to designate the partition.
Transferring and using the installation software
Before you partition and format the drive, you must transfer the hard disc installation files on the drive to a bootable diskette in Drive A. The diskette must have 300 Kbytes available. To create a bootable diskette:
1.Put your DOS diskette into Drive A.
2.Type format a:/s.
The drive will read the DOS diskette and ask you to insert the diskette you want to format into Drive A.
3.Insert the blank diskette. Press ENTER. When the format is complete, you can transfer the installation software files to the diskette.
Transferring the installation software
1.Boot the computer with the diskette to which you want to transfer the installation software files.
2.Enter the System Setup routine. (Refer to your computer user’s guide. System Setup may be called Setup, BIOS Setup or CMOS Setup.) If your computer uses an automatic setup system, go to step 5.
3.Find the hard disc configuration in the System Setup screen.
