Chapter 6 /
Command
Reference
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HSECT [drive:]
External
Formats
hard
sectors
on
a
hard
disk. Use FDISK and HFORMAT
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the
hard
disk format process.
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Parameters
drive is
the
hard
disk to be formatted.
Your
primary
hard
disk is
Drive
C,
a secondary
hard
disk is designated Drive
D.
If
you
omit drive, HSECT uses Drive
C.
Notes
and
Suggestions
• Appendix D outlines
the
entire
hard
disk setup procedure.
Refer to
this
appendix as necessary when
setting
up your
hard
disk.
•
To
begin
the
hard
disk format process, power up your
com-
puter
and
insert
an
MS-DOS diskette into Drive
A.
Insert
the
Hard
Disk Utilities diskette into Drive
B,
and boot your sys-
tem.
(If
you only have one floppy drive, replace
the
MS-DOS
diskette
with
the
Hard
Disk Utilities diskette after booting.)
•
Warning:
if
you want to format Drive
D,
be
sure
to specify
D:.
Otherwise, HSECT uses the default, Drive
C,
destroying
all
data
on
that
drive.
•
To
cancel
the
HSECT operation, press
[@
or I
CTRL
I
[Q].
• At
the
end of
the
process, the screen displays:
Format
completed!
Example
h:oect
c:
loads HSECT from
the
current drive, and formats
the
hard
sec-
tors of Drive
C.
The prompt,
Format
completed!,
appears
when
the
process is finished.
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