Formatting A New Disk; Selecting An Option; Starting The Formatting Process - Epson Equity 386SX User Manual

Formatting a New Disk

Many hard disk drives come with a printed list of bad tracks but
without the bad tracks flagged on the disk. Other hard disks
(such as those supplied by Epson) come with the bad tracks
already flagged. If you are formatting a new hard disk that has
never been formatted, select the
the disk.

Selecting an Option

When using this program, you often need to select an option
from a menu. There are two ways to do this:
You can use the arrow keys (? L t +) to move the
highlighted cursor block to the option and press
You can type the number of the option and press
You can select almost any option that appears on the screen
while you are formatting the disk using either of these two
methods. Therefore, when the instructions in this appendix tell
you to select an option, you can either use the arrow keys (T 1
the option. Then press
the operation.)

Starting the Formatting Process

If you have more than one hard disk drive, you see this prompt:
Enter drive number ? (1/2)
Select 1 for the first hard disk or
Then see the instructions below for the Hard Disk Format
Menu option you want to use.
Physically Formatting a Hard Disk
D-4
1 -Format
(You must press
Enter.
for the second hard disk.
2
option to format
Enter.
Enter.
to start
Enter