Formatting
a
Hard
Disk
Fotmatting 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 Hard Disk Format Menu.
B-28 Epson
NX
Service
Manual
To Next Page
Loading...
