Table of Contents
Advertisement
During
formatting, the
hard
disk
is
formatted,
scanned
for
bad
sectors,
and
divided
into partitions.
First,
a
message
appears
informing
you
that
formatting
is
in
progress. This
is
followed
by
the Physical Unit
Markbad
box.
Markbad
scans
the
hard
disk cylinder
by
cylinder, dis-
playing the
number
of
previously
marked bad
sectors
and
keeping
a
tally
of
all
the
newly
marked bad
sectors.
Finally,
a
message
appears
informing
you
that partitioning
is
in
progress.
A
Partition
a
Physical Unit
A
Partitioning.
.
.
When
the
partitioning
message
disappears, the formatting operation
is
complete.
The number
of partitions that
are
created
and
the size
of
each
is
deter-
mined
by your
Atari
MEGAFILE
or
SH
hard
disk drive
model and
listed
in
the Default
Partition
Sizes Table
at
the
beginning
of this
chapter.
Partitioning
Partitioning
is
the
process
of
dividing
your
physical
hard
disk
into
data
storage
areas
called
logical drives.
Each
logical
drive
is
used
as a sep-
arate disk
drive
and
assigned
its
own
drive
letter
when
you
install
the
logical
drives
from
GEM
Desktop.
Partitioning
allows
you
to
store
and
access your
data
efficiently.
Though
formatting automatically creates
partitions
with default sizes,
you can use
the
Partition
option
to
create
partitions
in
sizes best suited
to
your
disk
storage needs.
The
Partition
option
lets
you use an
editing
menu
to
set the size
of
each
partition
or select
a
suggested
partitioning
scheme
as explained
in
the next
two
sections.
17
Advertisement
Table of Contents
