Hard Disk Controller Board (250-1007) Formatting Faxback Doc. # 2023 Once you have made all appropriate cable connections from the hard disk controller board to your hard disk, the following steps will enable you to set up the disk for use. The directions essentially apply to the installation of the primary, or Drive C hard disk. Be sure that you use MS-DOS version 02.11.01 of later. Formatting Drive C consists of three main sections: a) Formatting the Hard Sectors --HSECT.COM b) Partitioning the Disk --FDISK.COM c) Formatting the Soft Sectors --HFORMAT.COM The operation; is accomplished by means of a utilities disk, included in this package. 1. Power up the system by turning on the Tandy 1000. 2. Insert an MS-DOS Disk into Drive A. 3. Insert the Hard Disk Utilities disk into Drive B. 4. Boot up the system. You may wish to verify the contents of the utility disk in Drive B. If you type: A>dir b: [ENTER] You will see the directory of the utility disk listing the three command files noted in a, b, and c above. 5. At the prompt A>, type b:hsect [ENTER]. You will see: "Press any key to start formatting drive C" If no drive is specified in the above command, the default is drive C. Then, press any key to initiate the format process. The screen will then announce "Formatting....." while the green light on your hard disk flickers. While the time required to complete formatting will vary with the size of your hard disk, typically, with the 15 meg unit, your formatting time will be about 6 minutes. At the end of the procedure the screen will read "Format completed!" NOTE: If this installation is for you secondary hard disk, Drive D, be cautious when formatting. the utility default is Drive C. If you fail to specify Drive D by typing B:hsect d:, the screen will warn you that you are about to re-format Drive C with the message: The disk has already been formatted. All data on disk will be DESTROYED!! You may then press [ESC] or [CTRL] C to cancel. PARTITIONING At the prompt A> type: b:fdisk [ENTER]. The screen will display the following menu: 1. Create DOS Partition 2. Change Active Partition 3. Delete DOS Partition 4. Display Partition Data 5. Select Next Hard Disk Drive 6. Select Previous Hard Disk Drive Enter Selection--> ESC to Exit to MS-DOS A hard disk may be partitioned to place more than one operating system on it of for other specialized applications. You are effectively able to determine where and how much of the total disk to allocate for DOS 1 and DOS 2. Up to 4 partitions may be made. Under normal conditions and for those just beginning, we recommend that the entire disk, or 1 partition, be allocated for your present MS-DOS. To verify the present status, select 4. The display should read: No Partition Yet If you have already installed Drive C, you may choose option 5 to verify the status of Drive D. Then, press 1, Create DOS Partition. The screen will ask: Do you wish to use the entire disk for DOS (Y/N)--> If you have no need for special applications, answer Y. However, if there is a specific need for selecting more than 1 partition, for advanced applica- tions, not that the maximum available space in cylinders will be displayed and you will be requested to enter the partition size as the number of cylin- ders for the partition as well as the starting cylinder number for that partition. Your answer will be based upon your requirements. EXAMPLE: Let us say that you wish to partition 50 cylinders starting at cylinder 0. At the prompt shown above you would answer N. The screen would then ask: Enter Partition size--> You would input 50. If you wished to verify the input, select option 4, Display Partition Data. The screen would show: Partition Status Type Start End Size 1 N DOS 0 49 50 The Status column refers to Active or Non-active. The default is non active. An active partition may be chosen so that you can boot up directly from your Drive C. However, this is only applicable for an active partition on Drive C. All other partitions should be non-active. To change the status from Non-active to Active, type 2 Change Active Partition. You will then be asked to enter the number you wish to make active. To verify the change, press 4 again to Display Partition Data. This time the N will be an A. SYSTEM TRANSFER AND LABEL ASSIGNMENT To transfer the MS-DOS system and system files from the floppy in Drive A to the hard disk, Drive C, which will enable you to boot from Drive C, and to name or label that disk, at the prompt, type: A>b:hformat c:/s/v [ENTER] If you are formatting Drive D, substitute "d" for "c" in the above command. The formatting message following will indicate: "...formatting D." The screen will show: Press any key to begin formatting C: After you press any key, the screen will display: Formatting..... When the process is completed, the message: "System transferred" will be seen. Then, you will be asked for a Volume label of 11 characters or less. For NONE, simply press [ENTER]. Finally, at A> type copy*.*c: to transfer all the existing files on your floppy MS-DOS disk in Drive A onto the Drive C Hard Disk. then, the next time you use the system, you may boot-up directly from Drive C. (css/jej-05/11/94)