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Fdisk
This is the first step to preparing your
hard drive for a new installation on windows. You need to have a
partition on the hard drive in order to format. I don't
recommend using the western digital disks to
format your hard drive because of future problems.
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Start your computer with you 3 1/2
floppy windows start-up disk in your disk drive
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the first thing that will show up on the
screen is a menu to choose the type of boot-up
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this menu has a timer so you have to
select the option "without cd-rom support" in 15 seconds
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you select you option by press in the
number of the option you want
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it will take it a few seconds and then
you'll see "A:\" on the screen
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right now you want to type in
"fdisk"
and press "enter"
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the next screen will ask you if you would
like
large drive support you'll just press the "enter" key
Deleting a
partition on a used hard drive
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in the menu you pick option "3 delete a
current
partition"
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so type in "3" and the next menu will ask
you what type of partition you want to erase
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This may be a little difficult but is
normally option "1 delete the primary dos partition"
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type in number "1" and it will ask you to
verify the information before it continues
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after you have verified the info and it's
deleted the partition it will ask you to restart your computer
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either press the restart button on the
computer or press all at once "Ctrl+Alt+Delete"
Creating a
partition on an unpartitioned hard
drive
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follow the first set of instructions and
after step 7
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you'll choose the 1st option "1 create a
partition"
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so press"1" and then in the next menu
you'll choose "1 create a primary dos partition"
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Type in "1" and then it will verify your
hard drives integrity
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after it's done it will ask you how much
of the drive to
partition
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press "enter" because you want it to
partition the whole drive
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after you finish this it will ask you to
restart the computer
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now your ready to
format the hard drive for installation
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