User`s guide
System Software and Restoration
B-3
System Restoration
This section describes the steps you need to take to install a Microsoft Operating system,
and drivers onto a new hard drive, or on an existing drive which needs restoration.
Preparing a New Hard Drive
PHDISKF and FDISK are the two utilities needed in order to prepare you hard disk for
general use. These utilities can be found on your Digital System CD. The FDISK utility
formats your hard drive while the PHDISKF utility creates a DOS file on your hard drive.
This DOS file is necessary in order to take advantage of the notebookâs Save to Disk
power management feature.
FDISK and Format Disk Utility
The Digital System CD is a bootable CD, which will boot to the A:\ prompt. In the
following instructions, we will be running the FDISK Utility on a 1.44GB hard drive.
1. Insert the Digital System CD into the CD-ROM tray. The CD should boot to
the A:\ prompt. At the A:\, type FDISK
the command line should read A:\FDISK.
Press <Enter>.
2. This will execute the FDISK utility. When asked if you want to enable
enlarged disk support, choose [No]. If you choose [Yes], you will not be able to
install WinNT or a Win95 non-SR2 operating system.
3. At the FDISK Main Menu, choose 1 to create a DOS partition or logical DOS
drive. To choose this option, type the number 1 and press <Enter>.
4. Choose 1 again to create a primary DOS partition by typing 1 and pressing
<Enter>.
5. If you wish to make the whole hard drive one large partition, press <Enter> to
accept the default Yes. Continue to press the <esc.> key until you have exited
FDISK and are at the DOS prompt. Restart the system by pressing
Ctrl+Alt+Del. Proceed to step 16. If you wish to create multiple partitions on
the hard drive, press the N key (signifying No) and then press <Enter>.
Proceed to step 6.
6. FDISK will inform you the approximate space available on the hard drive and
prompts you to enter the percent of disk space or the number of MB you wish to
assign for the primary partition. For the purpose of this example, we have
chosen to assign drive C: 500MB.
7. Type 500 and press <Enter>. FDISK displays the partition information. Press
the <esc.> key to continue.