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Chapter 6: Setting up the New Drive Manually Formatting the New Drive If you replaced your master (boot) drive, follow the instructions in this section only if you want to format a primary or extended partition on the hard drive. If you replaced or added an additional slave drive, follow the instructions in this section to format your replacement hard drive or to format the partition on the hard drive. Formatting a primary partition using DOS Perform this procedure only if you are creating a boot drive and need to format the primary partition in DOS. Format all other partitions in Windows. If you are not sure, use Windows. For instructions, see "Formatting a partition or slave drive using Windows" on page 52. Important The FORMAT program is not available in Windows XP. The primary partition is formatted when Windows XP is installed on the hard drive. To format the primary partition on a boot drive: 1 Insert the System Restoration Kit CD or the System Restoration CD into the CD or DVD drive. Important To start from a CD, you may need to make your CD or DVD drive the primary boot device in the BIOS Setup utility. See the documentation that came with your CD to make your CD or DVD the primary boot device. 2 Restart your computer. The Main menu opens. 3 Close the Main menu. 4 Type format x: /s where x is the letter of the hard drive you have just installed, then press ENTER. 50 www.gateway.com

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Chapter 6: Setting up the New Drive Manually
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Formatting the New Drive
If you replaced your master (boot) drive, follow the instructions in this section
only
if you want to format a primary or extended partition on the hard drive.
If you replaced or added an additional slave drive, follow the instructions in
this section to format your replacement hard drive or to format the partition
on the hard drive.
Formatting a primary partition using DOS
Perform this procedure only if you are creating a boot drive and need to format
the primary partition in DOS. Format all other partitions in Windows. If you
are not sure, use Windows. For instructions, see “Formatting a partition or slave
drive using Windows” on page 52.
To format the primary partition on a boot drive:
1
Insert the
System Restoration Kit
CD or the
System Restoration CD
into the
CD or DVD drive.
2
Restart your computer. The Main menu opens.
3
Close the Main menu.
4
Type
format x: /s
where
x
is the letter of the hard drive you have just
installed, then press
E
NTER
.
Important
The FORMAT program is not available in Windows XP. The
primary partition is formatted when Windows XP is
installed on the hard drive.
Important
To start from a CD, you may need to make your CD or DVD
drive the primary boot device in the BIOS Setup utility. See
the documentation that came with your CD to make your
CD or DVD the primary boot device.