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Added a new Hard-Drive:
Ok, you bought A Hard-Drive--now what:
Copying the OS to the new drive, Help with other problems and other scenario's--read FDISK,
FORMAT, PARTITION, Re-Installing Windows, for more info. (also making a boot floppy
below)
Warning: If your going to use your CD, you better have it's driver on the start-up floppy
and the path to it correct--also mscdex.exe at the root on your floppy.
Double check testing it before fdisk or format. Need help for a BOOT
disk??
Just Plain adding a second hard-drive:
(1) Back-up anything you want to restore and/or if you screw-up.
(2) Set your old drive to master and your new one to slave.
(3) Insert your Boot floppy and start/boot your computer.
(4) Type FDISK and highlight the new drive and delete any partitions and
check--(there might not be any on a new drive).
(5) Then create a primary dos partition and I'm assuming you only want
one partition for the entire drive and then esc out of fdisk.
(6) Re-boot your floppy.
(7) Type FORMAT d: /s (if D is the drive) and (at this point you can use it
as a storing device) or make a extended partition and then all the logical
drives you want.
(8) But we want W-95, so pull your floppy out to boot to your windows
drive and open a 95 dos window.
(9) Type and ignore any error message.
XCOPY C:\*.* D:\*.* /s/c/h/e/r/k
(10) When it's finished, turn off the PC, change the jumpers so that the new hard
drive is the Primary Master drive.
(11) Boot with your floppy Boot disk. Using FDISK, set the Primary
Partition on the new drive Active.
(12) Eject the Boot disk and reboot. If Windows95 does not boot from the
hard drive, put the startup disk back in and boot to it and at the A:\
prompt, type:
SYS C:
This will recopy the system files to the new hard drive, reboot and It should
boot to Windows95.
DONE.
Installing 2 OS's like W-95 (FAT16) and NT4 (FAT16) on 2 drives
and for advanced user's.
(1) Set drive 1 to master and drive 2 to slave if on the same idle port.
(2) Boot to your floppy and type FDISK and make a small partition (5mb's)
primary on drive 1.
(3) Make a secondary partition for the rest of the drive space.
(4) FORMAT /s (FAT16) the small partition on drive 1 to make bootable.
(5) FORMAT (FAT32) the secondary partition of drive 1 and install W-95b
on drive 1.
(6) Install NT4 on drive 2 and your done. NOTE: NT will install system
files on the small partition.
Now when you boot up, it will ask if you want 95b or NT. You end up with your
5mb boot on drive C, 95b on D and NT on E.
Of course you can use Partition Magic 3 and use there boot
system or boot manager.
Have A Happy Drive--err Day
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