User`s manual

Chapter 3
Operating Your System
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3-1 An Introduction to DOS
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Loading DOS
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System Messages
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3-2 DOS Operations
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Starting MS-DOS
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Formatting Disks
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Banking up Your Diskettes and Files
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Deleting your Diskettes and Files
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Finding Out What Is on a Disk
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3-3 Hard Disk Drive Format
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Step 1 — Prefomatting
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Step 2 —
Partitioning
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Step3 — Format
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3-4 Helpful Hints
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3-5 BIOS Utility and Setup
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3-6 System BIOS
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Hard Disk Preformat
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System Utilities
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Password
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User-defined Hard Disk Type
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Shadow RAM
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3-7 Setup Program
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Entering the Setup Program
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Running the Setup Program
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Shadow RAM
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Exiting the Program
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3-8 System BIOS Error Messages
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