AMSTRAD PC1640 - Hard Disc Installation

HARD DISC
INSTALLATION ON
PC1640
PC1640 hard
disc comes ready installed
with the
necessary software.
That is
discs
1
to
4
that are
supplied ready
with the machine.
However in
the
case
of
a
disc
failure it may be
necessary to
reinstall the
supplied software.
This is done in the
following way:
1.
Put disc
one into drive A: and boot up
the
system.
2. Put
disc four into drive A:
and type
CD\SUPPLEME and
press
return.
3. Type
HDFORMAT and press
return.
4.
Answer YES to the
screen prompt.
5. When
HDFORMAT is completed
remove disc four
and replace
with disc one.
6. Type
CD\and press
return.
7. Type FDISC
and press return.
8.
Press return every
time you are asked a
question.
9.
With disc one still in
drive A:
type
FORMAT C:/S
and press
return.
10. When
formatting is finished
replace disc one
with disc four.
1 1
.
Type
CD\SUPPLEME and press
return.
1
2.
Type CONFIG and
press return.
»
After typing CONFIG the machine will proceed to copy the
four system discs to the
hard disc.
After copying each disc you will prompted to
insert
the next
disc.
You
do
not need to know
in which
order to
insert the discs
because
the
machine will tell you which
disc is
needed next.
The
system is now
installed
and
should
be tested by
rebooting the
machine.
It should be
noted that if the hard disc is ok
but
the software has been
corrupted or deleted you
can
reinstall the software without reformatting.
This is done
by
following steps 1 1 and 1 2.
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