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If you press ENTER, you will receive this screen:
During the formatting process, you may press the ESCAPE key to abort
If the disk is write protected, you will receive the prompt:
After a few seconds, the prompt will disappear and you will be returned to the main FORMAT
DISK page. You should eject the disk and take the write protect off. However, there may be a
reason the disk is write protected so it may be wise to leave the format page and check the
contents before proceeding as there may be important data on it that needs to be kept.
NOTES ON FORMATTING DISKS
The full format and certify procedure takes between 20 minutes and an hour, depending on
the size of the disk. During this time, the DD8 writes a new, empty directory to the disk after
which, if FORMAT & CERTIFY is selected as the format operation, it goes through the disk
searching for bad blocks and marking them so that they won’t be used.
We recommend that you do a full format to prevent the possibility of disk errors later on.
However, if you wish, you can either select FORMAT ONLY as the format operation or you
can just let the format run for 30 seconds or so (enough time to write the directory) and press
ESCAPE to abort. In most cases, FORMAT ONLY should be sufficient but please note that
AKAI professional cannot accept responsibility for disks that have not been fully formatted
that show errors later on. It is recommended that you do a full format for brand new disks. If
there are no bad blocks shown, there should be no need to do a full format again should you
wish to re-format the disk for re-use at a later date.
As a final reminder...
FORMATTING THE DISK WILL ERASE THE CONTENTS COMPLETELY AND YOU WILL
NOT BE ABLE TO RETRIEVE THEM.
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