Copying
Rebuild Disk
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- Format new disk
- Insert any blank
or unused disk into the floppy drive.
- Under the My Computer
folder find the Floppy Drive.
- Right Click the Floppy
drive and select “Format…”.
- Select “Create an
MS-DOS startup disk”.
- Now, select “Start”.
- When the computer
is done formatting the disk open the floppy disk and look at its contents.
- Under “Tools”, select
“Folder Options…”.
- Choose the “View”
tab.
- Deselect “Hide protected
operating system files”.
- Make sure that “Show
hidden files and folders” is selected.
- Now select “Apply”.
- Now, there are more
visible files on the floppy disk.
- Select all files
on the disk and Delete them.
- When asked to “Confirm
File Delete”, choose “Yes to all”.
- You now have a disk
that doesn’t have any files on it.
- Copying files
- Eject the newly formatted
floppy and insert an existing Rebuild disk
- Open the rebuild
disk and look at its contents
- Once again, go through
steps (g.) to (k.) from above to make sure that all hidden files are visible
- Create a New Folder
on the desktop, name it “Rebuild Disk Files”
- Drag all files from
the rebuild disk into the “Rebuild Disk Files” Folder on the desktop.
- After all files are
copied to the folder, eject the rebuild disk and insert the disk you formatted
in Step 1.
- Open the blank formatted
disk
- Also, Open
the “Rebuild Disk Files” folder on the desktop.
- Making sure that
all files are visible, select and drag the files from the “Rebuild Disk
Files” folder to the blank formatted disk.
- You have now created
a new Rebuild Disk.