System for automatically partitioning and formatting a primary hard disk for installing software in which selection of extended partition size is not related to size of hard disk
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Oct 24, 2000
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Oct 1, 1997
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A system of automatically configuring and formatting a computer system and installing a prespecified software program in the computer system, which includes: a first partitioning module which automatically creates an active DOS partition on a primary hard disk drive of the computer system; a selection module which automatically selects a size value for an extended DOS partition; a second partitioning module which automatically creates the extended DOS partition, wherein the size of the extended DOS partition equals the selected size value; a formatting module which automatically formats each partition so as to create a root directory and a file allocation table for each partition; and an install module which automatically executes a DOS batch file in order to install said prespecified application program.
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