Standard Formatting - Compaq AlphaServer 1200 User Manual

To format a FAT partition
1. Start AlphaBIOS and select Hard Disk Setup. Press Enter.
2. Select the partition to be formatted (see
3. Press F6. A dialog box is displayed, asking whether to perform a quick or
standard format (see
completed immediately, but no bad sectors are mapped. If you select Standard
Format, a dialog box similar to that in Figure 5-20 is displayed while the drive
is formatted, showing the progress of the formatting. Standard formatting maps
bad sectors.
4. Select a format method, and press Enter.
Figure 5-20 Standard Formatting
Disk 0 QLISP1020 #0, SCSI ID 3
Partition 1
Partition 2
Unused
Disk 1 NCRC810 #0, SCSI ID 5
Partition 1
Partition 2
ESC=Cancel
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in Figure 5-19).
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). If you select Quick Format, the formatting is
Hard Disk Setup
200 MB
200 MB
110 MB
1001 MB
995 MB
Disk 0, Partition 2
Formatting...
25%
510 MB
NTFS
Unrecognized
NTFS
6 MB FAT
200 MB
AlphaBIOS Console
F1=Help
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