FDISK allows you to establish one or more partitions on the hard drive, so the drive will be ready to accept an operating system.
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How do i prepare a new hard disk drive for installation of a windows 98 system
No, they don't disappear, unless you use the command move to...
formats are not drive specific so it depends on the software with windows open a command prompt and use the format command
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The first hard drive was made in Silicon Vally. The hard drive was made by a company, IBM.
Drive Formatting is when you prepare the hard drive or other media for use by the operating system and puts a file system on it such as FAT32 or NTFS. The process erases all the data on your hard drive (important to back it up). That way you can use your hard drive for the first time or get to use it again after the data on it becomes severely corrupted or the operating system fails.
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First, navigate to the hard drive, external drive, or USB drive. Click the drive letter, and navigate to the file. Or by command sequence: Type dir to view the file: CD Change directory: \ \ Open: such as DIR E:\\pick.exe/S or E:\\A\\B\\C\\PICK
Offline and then Prepare to remove
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