Slick It, Partition It & Then Format It:
Something I use at Times:
setup /ie ==This switch bypasses the Windows 98 Startup Disk wizard screens and also bypass creating the Windows\Command\EBD folder.
Let's Do A 2 gig:
Have IDE Hard-Drive, what else do I need. Inside your PC, check your 40pin ribbon cable and see if it has a open connector and a open power plug available, (if not) pick one up at your local PC store that has multi-connectors and make sure you have 4 of the little screws that hold the hard-drive to the case. Unplug your PC, pull the case cover off and touch the inside of the case, just in case your running around with some Static electricity.
PLEASE READ THE WHOLE ARTICLE SCENARIO FIRST.
Set the new drive to slave and the old one (should already be) to master and connect the 40pin ribbon cable with the little red line toward the center or the power plug, push in the power plug and screw it/mount it to the case.
Boot to your floppy and type FDISK and select option 4 to display any partition information. Some newer H-Drives come Partitioned and Formatted from the MFG. and if anything is there fdisk will let you know. NOTE; you have to delete all partitions before you can create what you want (sometimes called slicking the disk). So if you have partitions---then they have to be deleted in this order;
*Any non-dos partition, *any logical drives in the extended dos partition, then *any extended dos partition and finally *the primary dos partition. It's NOW ( SLICKED ).
OK, (now it's create time) and with this scenario we have a 2gig drive so we'll make (1) - 1gig primary and (1) - 600mb logical drive and (1) - 400mb logical drive and when asked give them (labels) names in this order ( C Main, Apps and Data ). This will make it easier to identify when formatting.
From the fdisk option screen select (1) and then (1) again to create a primary DOS partition, press (N) not to accept the maximum size.
Enter 1000 for the MB size and press enter, then name it (C Main) and (esc) to options again.
Select option 2 to make C Main active then return to the option screen.
Create a extended dos partition for all the free space that's left and return to the options screen ( Note: extended partition isn't a drive ).
Create a logical 500mb partition as you did before and name it (Apps) and return to options to create another 500mb logical partition and name it (Data) then ESC out to re-boot back to your floppy for formatting.
Type FORMAT ?: /s ( ? is your drive letter for C Main) for system files and then FORMAT Apps & Data drives without using the /s switch and remove your floppy and boot to your old drive so we can copy your Operating System (W-95) to your new drive.
From a DOS WINDOW INSIDE WINDOWS 95, type the
following command: XCOPY C:\*.* D:\*.* /s/c/h/e/r/k
Note: If you get a "switch not recognized" error, you're doing it wrong. To find
out what these switches do, type xcopy /? from a DOS WINDOW INSIDE WINDOWS 95 (or review
my re-installing W-95). This command assumes that your new hard drive was assigned the
letter D:\. Choose "yes" when asked to overwrite files. Note: all of your drive
letters will be changed again by W-95 when you change the jumpers at the end.
When copying is finished, turn off the computer and change the jumpers to make your new drive the master (of which you called C Main) and the old one slave & (reformat the old boy for storage) OR if you wish--remove it.
Remove any disks and re-boot for your new drive (with fingers crossed).
If for any reason it has trouble booting to your W-95, boot again to your floppy A:\> prompt and type SYS C: to re-copy system files, then remove floppy and boot again.
!!!!!DONE!!!!!
Let's Do A 6gig:
Have IDE Hard-Drive, what else do I need. Inside your PC, check your 40pin ribbon cable and see if it has a open connector and a open power plug available, (if not) pick one up at your local PC store that has multi-connectors and make sure you have 4 of the little screws that hold the hard-drive to the case. Unplug your PC, pull the case cover off and touch the inside of the case, just in case your running around with some Static electricity.
PLEASE READ THE WHOLE ARTICLE SCENARIO FIRST.
Set the new drive to slave and the old one (should already be) to master and connect the 40pin ribbon cable with the little red line toward the center or the power plug, push in the power plug and screw it/mount it to the case.
Boot to your floppy and type FDISK and select option 4 to display any partition information. Some newer H-Drives come Partitioned and Formatted from the MFG. and if anything is there fdisk will let you know. NOTE; you have to delete all partitions before you can create what you want (sometimes called slicking the disk). So if you have partitions---then they have to be deleted in this order; *Any non-dos partition, *any logical drives in the extended dos partition, then *any extended dos partition and finally *the primary dos partition. It's NOW ( SLICKED ). OK, (now it's create time) and with this scenario we have a 6gig drive so we'll make (3) - 2gig primary drives and when asked give them (labels) names in this order ( C Main, Apps and Data ). This will make it easier to identify when formatting.
From the fdisk option screen select (1) and then (1) again to create a primary DOS partition, press (N) not to accept the maximum size. Enter 2000 for the MB size and press enter, then name it (C Main) and (esc) to options again.
Select option 2 to make C Main active then return to the option screen.
Create another 2000mb primary dos partition and call it Apps.
Create another primary partition as you did before and name it (Data) then ESC out to re-boot back to your floppy for formatting.
Type FORMAT ?: /s ( ? is your drive letter for C Main) for system files and then FORMAT Apps & Data drives without using the /s switch and remove your floppy and boot to your old drive so we can copy your Operating System (W-95) to your new drive.
From a DOS WINDOW INSIDE WINDOWS 95, type the following command: XCOPY C:\*.* D:\*.* /s/c/h/e/r/k
Note: If you get a "switch not recognized" error, you're doing it wrong. To find out what these switches do, type xcopy /? from a DOS WINDOW INSIDE WINDOWS 95 (or review my re-installing W-95). This command assumes that your new hard drive was assigned the letter D:\. Choose "yes" when asked to overwrite files. Note: all of your drive letters will be changed again by W-95 when you change the jumpers at the end.
When copying is finished, turn off the computer and change the jumpers to make your new drive the master (of which you called C Main) and the old one slave & (reformat the old boy for storage) OR if you wish--remove it.
Remove any disks and re-boot for your new drive (with fingers crossed).
If for any reason it has trouble booting to your
W-95, boot again to your floppy A:\> prompt and type SYS C: to re-copy system
files, then remove floppy and boot again.
!!!!!DONE!!!!!
