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13.4 FDISK
Before you can use your new hard drive, it has to be configured by
creating one or more partitions and formatting them afterwards.
Here is how to do this using FDISK:
IMPORTANT NOTICE: Please read the instructions very
carefully! (Re-) Partitioning and/or formatting of a disk drive
erases all data stored on it! If you are not familiar using the
program “FDISK”, consult your Computer- or Windows/DOS
manual!
If you want to configure hard disks larger than 64 GB, please
download the FDISK-Update/Patch for Windows 98 and 98SE
from the Microsoft homepage. Windows 95 supports only disks
upto 32GB!
1. Click on the "START" - button in the taskbar and choose “RUN”.
Type “FDISK” and press “OK”.
2. A DOS box will appear and the following text is shown:
Your computer has a disk lager than 512 MB. This version of
Windows includes improved support for large disks, resulting in more
efficient use of disk space on large drives, and allowing disks over 2 GB
to be formatted as a single drive.
IMPORTANT: If you enable large disk support and create any new
drives on this disk, you will not be able to access the new drive(s) using
other operating systems, including some versions of Windows 95 and
Windows NT, as well as earlier versions of Windows and MS-DOS. In
addition, disk utilities that were not designated explicitly for the
FAT32 file system will not be able to work with this disk. If you need to
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