Formatting the Disk
When you are ready to start formatting the disk, you see the
following warning:
WARNING! ALL DATA WILL BE DESTROYED IN ALL
PARTITIONS OF HARD DISK, NOT JUST IN MS-DOS
PARTITION!
Do you want to start formatting ? (Y/N)
If you are not sure you want to format the hard disk, select
N.
If
you are sure, select Y
;
the program gives you one more chance
to cancel:
DOUBLE CHECK THAT YOU HAVE BACKUP DISKETTE
COPIES OF ALL YOUR FILES.
Do you want to exit and check your file
copies ? (Y/N)
Select
Y
to cancel formatting or
N
to continue. If you continue
with formatting, you see:
Format started.
Head
: nnn
Cylinder :
nnnnn
You see the head and cylinder numbers decrease as the
program progresses.
When formatting is complete, the program flags any bad tracks
and you see a series of messages like these:
Format finished.
Flagging bad tracks...
Cylinder is nnnn, head is nn
Format completed.
Press ENTER to return to the menu.
Press
[‘]
to return to the Hard Disk Format Menu.
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