CHAPTER ONE
Drive Setup
A Drive Setup disk is
used to perform a number of very important steps to prepare a disk which has already
been tested and shown to be good, to receive a brand new operating system. First all
partitions currently on the disk are removed, the drive will be repartitioned as one
large partition, the boot sector will be scanned for possible viruses (and cleaned if
any are found), a ScanDisk will be done, including a surface scan, to see if there are
any bad places on the disk, and the disk will get a label "Harddisk", and then if the
disk is being setup for Windows 95A or B a "sys c:" will be done, to reserve space for
c:\command.com, c:\msdos.sys, and c:\io.sys, but those files will then be erased so the
clone operation which you will then do can copy over the proper files.
Once Drive Setup completes, turn the computer off (to remove any viruses which might
be in memory), and then you can transfer an operating system image in via several
different possible procedures:
- If you have an Interlink Cable (Lap Link Cable) you can connect the printer port of the
target machine to a machine with the files from the Master CD
installed on the hard disk, and use a Clone3 or
Clone4 (depending on whether you want to install
Win 3.1 / Win95a or if you want to install Win95b) to setup the target machine as an Interlink
Server, and transfer the files across the parallel cable.
- If the target machine has an operational CD Rom drive you can use the Clone3/Clone4 disk
to install temporary dos drivers, and use a Master CD
to transfer the proper image file directly to the hard disk of the target machine.
- If you want to do open the computer and temporarilly install a second hard disk with
the image files from the Master CD
on it, you can transfer the images from hard disk to hard disk.
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