Kreisen 3 8 6 X / X E User Manual

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You should already have

made sure

that there is no information

stored on the hard disk that you want to save. Press Y to begin

formatting. The formatting process takes

several

minutes.

When it is completed, the

system will

display:

Formatting
System transferred

Volume

label (11 characters, ENTER for none)?

Here, your computer is asking you to name your hard disk

drive. This is a result of the /V switch used with the FORMAT

command. A disk label can be useful when sorting directories,

so you may want to enter one now.
A volume label can use up to eleven characters. See Chapter

4, “Using MS-DOS,” for a list of valid label characters. When
you have entered the drive label, your computer will respond:

XXXXXXXX bytes

total disk space

XXXXX bytes used by system

XXXXXXXX bytes available on disk

The /S switch in the FORMAT command caused the active
portions of MS-DOS to be loaded onto the system area of the
hard disk. At this point you can boot the system from the hard

disk.

6-10

Using

Your

Hard Disk

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