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In Article <3113c5f3.222399@news.innotts.co.uk> Eddy Hood 
writes:
>Hi,
>
>I hope someone can help me, because I could really do with 
some advice.
>I am hoping to upgrade my computer, and with it, I want to 
get a new
>harddrive to replace my current one. But, when I get this 
new I understand
>it won't be formatted or anything, so what do I do with it? 
Do I need to
>make a boot floppy disk with the files needed to set up and 
partition the
>harddrive for my PC? If so, what programs do I need and what 
do I do? I
>hear people talking about low-level formatting IDE drives, 
but when I did
>this with an IDE drive on my old Amiga it broke it, I had to 
get a new one.
>I later read in an Amiga magazine that you shouldn't 
low-level format IDE
>drives, but is this just for the Amiga, or are you supposed 
to low-level
>format these drives for use on a PC? I really don't want to 
spend over ?100
>and wreck my new harddrive straight away!
>So, could anyone tell me exactly what I need to do with this 
hard drive to
>get it working?
>
>Thanks alot for any help anyone could give me, either on 
this newsgroup or
>by email,
>Eddy.
>
>

You need your original MS-DOS (or (cringe!) Windows 95) 
disks, that came with the computer. Make sure the correct 
type is set in the CMOS, with LBA on if necessary, and use 
the setup disks. These will do everything for you.