(1) If your HD is smaller than 400 Meg, format a small DOS partition on your hard disk. Follow this link.

(2) If your HD is larger than 400 Meg but less than 2 G, format two DOS partitions on your hard disk. Follow this link.

(2b) If your HD is larger than 2 G, you are wasting resources, use a smaller hard disk for this project.

(3) Create a "boot record" on your hard disk. Here is how

(4) Copy 8 files to your IDE hard-disk. Here is how