🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <3113c5f3.222399@news.innotts.co.uk>, Eddy Hood
<eddy@innotts.co.uk> 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?

You need a boot disk with FDISK, FORMAT and SYS on it.
Create your partition(s) and set the first one active (bootable).
Then format your partition(s).

Then use the SYS command to copy the hidden system files and COMMAND.COM
onto your bootable drive

> 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!

NEVER low-level format an IDE drive. You will erase the embedded
information on the drive. The FORMAT command is a higher level
formatting for the DOS that you are using.

>So, could anyone tell me exactly what I need to do with this hard drive to
>get it working?
>
See above

>Thanks alot for any help anyone could give me, either on this newsgroup or
>by email,
>Eddy.
>

-- 
Ian Linwood