HOW TO INSTALL WINDOWS
ME
Last updated: 9/14/00
Press Enter to select the default [1]. The
following screen will be displayed:
Create DOS Partition or Logical DOS Drive
Current fixed disk drive: 1
Choose one of the following:
1. Create Primary DOS Partition
2. Create Extended DOS Partition
3. Create Logical DOS Drive(s) in the Extended DOS Partition
Enter choice: [1]
Press Esc to return to FDISK Options
Again, press Enter to select the default. The
following will be displayed
Again, press Enter to select the default. The
following will be displayed
Create Primary DOS partition
Current fixed disk drive : 1
Verifying drive integrity, xx% complete.
Current fixed disk drive: 1
Do you wish to use the maximum available
size for a primary DOS partition
and make the partition active (Y/N) ....................? [Y]
At this point you can press the Enter
key and make the entire drive one partition, your C: drive, or enter
N and make a partition which occupies less than the entire drive. I
recommend 4 GB partition for the C: drive. You may want to allocated
the rest of the drive to the D: drive, but one can make more than just
two partitions if desired. The menus are quite self explanatory for accomplishing
this task. You will also want to create an Extended DOS partition
and assign logical drive D: to it (fdisk should do that automatically
after the partition is created). You must exit fdisk and reboot
after creating each partition. Only one of the partitions can be
active. The active partition is the one which will boot after Windows
is installed. Make sure the primary partition is Active by displaying
the partition information.
If partitions already exist on the hard
disk drive, you will be able to display and delete them with fdisk. After
making sure you have everything of value backed up, you can take the
drive down to "bare metal" with delete partition functions. This
will, of course, destroy all data on the drive (or make it very difficult
to recover). Do it at your own risk. to be sure the boot
record is rather pristine you may want to restore it to the way it was
when it came from the manufacture with C:\>fdisk /mbr (where mbr =
manufacturer's boot record).
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