Chapter
4
Initializing
Your
System
with
HARDGEN
Although
you nave se! up
and
perhaps
turned on your hard disk
drives, you
can,
as
yet. operate your
computer only as a floppy
disk system.
To use ynir hard disk drives, you
must first
initialize your hard disk
System.
This Includes:
t
Formatting the
hard
disk
drluw
2,
Configuring
them
into the computer system
3, Copying TRSDOS Version S onto youi
hard
disk system
The TRSDOS Hard
Disk
Initialization
Diskeiie
coniains
an
easy-
to-use urogram called HARDGEN/BAS
("Hard Disk System
Generator")
that
does
all this
for
you.
Note:
HARDGEM sets up a system configuration using a
specified pattern. Because these
patterns are
limited, you may
warn 10 configure
your
system
difterenify, using
one
of
the
alter-
nate methods
described
in Appendices A
and
B. Both methods
an&
more complicated,
howeuer,
anrl uv$
recommend them onty
for
advanced
users who cannot
meel their system
re-
quirements
with the normal use of HARDGEN.
Before beginning the initialization, please read the next section
carefully, ft explains the
difference between
physical'
and
"logical" drives. It is important to understand this
difference before
Initializing
your hard disk
system.
Once the
initialization incom-
plete, the operating system experts only
luyicat
diive numbers.
Technical
information
on
the
hard
disk initialization is included in
Chapter
6,
but you
probably
will not need it if you
use
the
HARDGEN
program.
CauOon:
It
you are reinitializing your hard disk, first back up
all
information
on the
disk initialization erases
all
information
you have on all
your
hard
disk drivee.
Ybu should also make backups before
moving
the equipment
from
its present location or adding new hard disk drives to your system.
Physical Drives v
Logical Drives
A physical drive is the actual place of
hardware.
A logical
drive
is
a
division
of
the physical
drive—according to read/write heads
—
that the operating system
recognize*
as a complete
drive.
It
has
its
own
directory
and files, and
its information
can
be
accessed
and
backed
up
jusi
as can
the
information on a physical drive.
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