SETTING THE DEFAULT FLOPPY DISK DRIVE IN 2HD.BAT AND 2DD.BAT

When formatting disks for the MEGA DISK the default disk drive is set to drive A.To change the default drive to use drive B as the default for formatting disks instead of drive A then do the following to "2HD.BAT" and "2DD.BAT" located in the "UTILS" folder (X:\MEGADSIK\UTILS).

Find both "2HD.BAT" and "2DD.BAT". Now RIGHT-CLICK "2HD.BAT" and choose edit (if you do not get an edit option rename it to "2HD.TXT" (without quotation marks) and double click it - rename it back to "2HD.BAT" afterwards) You should now have the following displayed in a text editor:

ECHO N%1.DOS > TT
ECHO F1000 21FF 0 >> TT
ECHO L1000 >> TT
ECHO W1000 0 12 9 >> TT
ECHO Q >> TT
DEBUG < TT
DEL TT
#

All you need to do is replace a 0 (zero) with a 1(one) this line "ECHO W1000 0 12 9 >> TT" becomes this line "ECHO W1000 1 12 9 >> TT" save the file and close the text editor. Now move onto the next step.

Now RIGHT-CLICK "2DD.BAT" and choose edit (if you do not get an edit option rename it to "2DD.TXT" and double click it - rename it back to "2HD.BAT" afterwards) You should now have the following displayed in a text editor:

ECHO N%1.DOS > TT
ECHO F1000 21FF 0 >> TT
ECHO L1000 >> TT
ECHO W1000 0 9 9 >> TT
ECHO Q >> TT
DEBUG < TT
DEL TT
#

All you need to do is replace a 0 (zero) with a 1(one) this line "ECHO W1000 0 9 9 >> TT" becomes this line "ECHO W1000 1 9 9 >> TT" save the file and close the text editor. If you have done the procedure right then the default floppy disk drive is now set as drive B:


NOTE 1: Be careful only to change the specified one to a zero and nothing else. Make sure you do not set the number to any thing higher than one or it could damage the boot sector of your hard drive.

NOTE 2: You can't choose what drive you want to use when formatting, it will automatically use the default drive.

NOTE 3: To set the default back to drive a: change the one's you changed from zero's back to zero's.

NOTE 4: It is best not to use a external floppy disk drive as it may not be readable from DOS.