what is source drive & default drive in DOS & what is the diff. b/w them?
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Source drive is the drive from which you are copying stuff and destination drive is one which you are copying it to. \n\nin all such operations, destination name occurs first followed by a space and source name.\n\nBut why DOS?
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This is due to old DOS legacy\n\n"con" is short for console. \n\nIn the DOS days, you could do\nCMD>copy con a.txt, type into the console, on Ctrl-Z, the file contents that you typed got saved as a.txt.\n\nThere are other reserved names like lpt1 etc. You cannot have files or folders called any of these reserved names.
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FAT and NTFS are different disk formats/file systems. NTFS is more stable and more secure than FAT and allows the storage of larger files than can be stored on FAT. NTFS was meant to be used for Win 2000 up. NTFS formatted media cannot work on a FAT formatted system. However, FAT formatted media can work on both FAT and NTFS. That's why usb drives are FAT formatted.\n\nWin XP is the version of windows after Win 2000. Don't remember where Win Me comes in, but stay away from it. One of the biggest differences between Win 2000 and Win XP is the massive driver support available in Win XP. You can connect almost any device without needing to install the driver.
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Chkdsk also checks file intergrity.  It can determine cross-linked files or file system corruption.  \n\nThis basically means that it checks the file against the Allocation table to make sure that everything is as it should be and that no part of an allocated filed is unaccounted for or showing incorrect entries.\n\nYou need to change to the C:&#92;windows &#92;system32 directory to run the DOS utilities
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I'm going to assume that your using Windows Explorer...If this is the case then Go to My Computer then Local Drive, By default it is called C:\n\nIf this is the case you will see the all the main folders stored on the C: Drive\n\nOr if you don't like clicking things you may type C: into the address bar in Windows Explorer\n\nP.S Windows explorer is the program that is used when you open my computer and as such, to view your files stored on your computer
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Typically:\n\nC:&#92; Windows&#92; System32&#92; Drivers&#92; Etc &#92;Hosts  (take out the spaces, Answers thinks it's a URL and is deleting everything after Et)\n\nYour drive letter might not be the same (my 'C' drive is really E:) and your Windows directory might be different (Win32, Win98, Windows, WinXP; lots of possibilities).
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copy is just making a exact same file again with a different name or location, installing is putting file together for a program and adding it to the registry
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Yep, a PC clone is a PC clone.\n\nFrom booted to DOS and after fdisk:\n\nformat c: /s /u
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put in a floppy, right click on A: drive, select format, select "Create a Windows Startup Disk" or whatever it says.  I don't have any floppies so I can't check, but it's very similar.
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Each computer drive -- whether a hard disk, floppy, CD, or even multiple partitions on a single hard drive -- has a drive letter.\n\nMSWindows assigns the letter C to the main hard drive. The next one in line, whatever it is, is called D, and so on. \n\nFAT32 is a MSWindows-based file-system, which is how the computer keeps track of what is stored on the hard drive. It seems like your hard drive is split into a least two partitions, C and D, with the D part of the drive storing (organizing) files using a FAT32 file system. \n\nThe FAT32 file system itself is not what's taking up the space -- it's all the files and data stored on that disk.
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.iso or .bin, I think...
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yes you can.\n\nhttp://www.soft32.com/download_151.html\n\n\ndownload and install Partition magic program.\nopen partition magic and right click on the particular drive you want to convert. simple
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It's really easy to change out a drive on a desktop computer.  Just plug and play.
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Reading follow excepts from Active@KillDisk for Dos manual is scary enough!\n\nThe FORMAT utility actually creates new FAT and ROOT tables, leaving all previous data on the disk untouched. Moreover, an image of the replaced FAT and ROOT tables are stored, so that the UNFORMAT command can be used to restore them. FDISK merely cleans the Partition Table (located in the drive's first sector) and does not touch anything else.\n\nSo u can go and reformat your HDD as many times as you like, your DATA can still be resurrected by unformatting!\n\nIf you really want to KILL that HDD confidential content better use Active@KillDisk for DOS.  It's only 622kb big! Boot from DOS and key in the commandline to start erasing your HDD completely.\n\nProperly there are dozens of other similar programs available.
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Start-run then type in cmd (or command if you are using an older version of windows).  You then get a black box normally called the dos box.  You will see the drive letter, a colon and slash and a > so, if it opens to your C drive you will see C:&#92;> you can start typing dos commands in this window.
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For my PC HDD for the very first time i did it by booting my pc with a windows 98 boot cd. From the boot option i chose boot with cd-rom support. Then in the command prompt i typed fdisk. When it ran i chose to create primary partition first and then i chose no to use part of my HDD and gave a size like 25%. When it was done i chose extended DOS partition to create other three logical DOS drives. For the extended DOS partition i chose to use the rest of my HDD for it. When done it asked me to create logical drives in it. I gave 33% for the 1st and 2nd one and the rest for the last one. when done i exited the fdisk program and rebooted the system and started installing windows 98.\n\nNow the above option is for the first time if u have no other PC. If u have one more HDD with operating system in it or another PC then u can attach ur new HDD to that PC and partition it with third party softwares like PQ Partition Magic.\n\nIf u want to install Windows 2000 or Windows XP in that HDD just boot ur PC with ur Windows 2000 or Windows XP bootable CD and do partitions in it when prompted. It is very easy. It will show u what to do in detail on ur screen.\n\nPlay Safe...
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http://www.directron.com/formatdrive.html\nand read