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Formatting 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
you are sure, select
to cancel:
DOUBLE CHECK THAT YOU HAVE BACKUP DISKETTE
COPIES OF ALL YOUR
Do you want to exit and check your file
copies ? (Y/N)
select
to cancel formatting or
Y
with formatting, you see:
Format started.
Head
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 nnna, head is zm
Format completed.
Press ENTER to return to the menu.
Press m to return to the Hard Disk Format Menu.
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Formatting a Hard Disk
the program gives you one more chance
Y;
: nnn C y l i n d e r : nnnRR
FILES.
to continue. If you continue
N
If
N.
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