welcome back to the adventure this is Adam and today we are going to be partitioning our hard
drive formatting it and installing ms-dos if you'll notice the drive letter assigned to our
optical drive is now drive C that was one of the effects of all the debug commands we did
last video so it removed all of the partition information so there wasn't anything to assign
a drive letter to okay so we're gonna go ahead and open the F disk program and get right into
the partitioning so I like to start by picking option 4 to display partition information and
basically what we did we had removed all of the partitions so there's nothing to display here
but it does show there is a fixed disk available so this is like a brand-new hard drive straight
from the manufacturer that's 17 plus years old so there's a couple types of partitions that we
can create and we'll look at the create menu right here you can have up to four partitions per hard
drive those could be four primary partitions or three primary partitions and one extended
partition the benefit to an extended partition is that you can further separate that into logical
disks you could have as many logical disks as you have letters of the alphabet to assign as a drive
letter so that would be a through Z keep in mind that letters a and B are occupied by floppy disks
C is occupied by the primary active partition on the hard drive and D is for our optical drive
which we can reassign to another letter later so that means that we would have used four of
the 26 available letters so if you did have more logical drives than that you would just need to
unmount ones that you're not using and mount to the ones that you plan on using so there's not
an example that we'll go over that uses extended partitions right now that is more for a server
structure where each user is assigned drive space that's all separated by logical drives within an
extended partition so we're going to go ahead and pick option one and create a primary dos
partition yes we do want to be the full size of the drive which is two gigabytes and we wanted
to make that partition active for us well press the Enter button at this prompt so it's letting
us know that we'll need a disk to boot from and press any key and that's going to restart the
computer all right so we are back at the prompt now the drive letter board Mutsumi is back to
D where it should be which means we have AC drive available as you see here we're going to go ahead
and switch back to a for the next part which is formatting we use the format command and we need
to tell it what to format which is the C Drive C colon and then we're going to use the switch /s
most executable programs have some switches available in this case s is going to write
system files to the drive so we can boot from it the next time we restart the PC here we go
we're going to say yes this prompts we understand that the data will be lost
although there's nothing on the harddrive so the joke's on that all right that format process took
several minutes so I decided to cut it out here's the results so it formatted all two
gigs of the hard drive as intended the format is complete and the system is transferred it's
probably for a volume label I'm gonna leave this blank for right now and then this is a
summary of the remaining disk space and now we can actually boot from the hard drive so I am
going to eject the floppy disk and then we're going to restart the computer see oh here we
are I did successfully boot from the hard drive in starting ms-dos it is prompting for the date
and time that is the correct date the time is a little off but I won't change it right now and
here we are at dos ms-dos version 6.2 - a couple quick things we're gonna have to copy from the
a drive and look over here we'll put the disk in first I'm gonna retry okay and we're going to use
the derp command dir it's for directory in modern Windows versions that refer to as folders in this
area they're referred to as directories it's what you can place files inside of in a tree so this
is a list of everything that's on the disk I'm mainly looking at the autoexec.bat and configs is
and then the space and C : so I'm saying copy the name of the file
and then the destination which is just the C Drive
so there are a couple more items that the config sis file refers to as far as loading drivers and
those are all to do with the CD ROMs so we are going to use another switch here and that is dir /
p for pages so what happens now is it will display the first page of results and when we're ready we
can press the key to see the next page so I do need M SC de X that one's definitely important
so from here I am going to eject the floppy disk and restart the computer one more time all right
so after the reboot we had copied the files over here so it is able to load the cd-rom drivers
which is great for the next step of the process - what the installer for ms-dos did was decompress
files onto the hard drive there wasn't anything special about its install process so how we're
going to install ms-dos is by copying a das folder over to the drive first we will need to use the
make directory command or MD and we will call it does we could change directory by going to CD DOS
and then if you use the directory command here you'll see there's nothing in it yet
so I am going to jump over to the D Drive and we are going to look
at what's there and the folder name I'm looking for is DOS 6 to 2 in this case
all right from here we are going to copy asterisk dot
asterisk which is everything to C colon backslash
and this is going to proceed to copy all of the files from a standard Doss installation
from our optical drive over to the hard drive and when this completes we will have a full
installation of das 6.2 - there's quite a few files left that it's going to roll through here
there we go 185 files copy so now we can go back to our C Drive and we can type in
ver for version and that will answer back ms-dos version 6.2 - that's it
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