Quick And Full Erase - Hard Drive; Iomega Zip Drive Test; Asset Eeprom Backup - Lenovo Aptiva Hardware Maintenance Manual

Quick and Full erase - hard drive

The IBM PC Enhanced Diagnostics Program offers two
hard drive format utilities:
Quick Erase Hard Drive
Full Erase Hard Drive
The Quick Erase Hard Drive provides a DOS utility that
performs the following:
Destroys the Master Boot Record (MBR) on the hard
drive.
Destroys all copy of the FAT Table on all partitions
(both the master and backup).
Destroys the partition table.
Provides messages that warn the user that this is a
non-recoverable process.
The Full Erase Hard Drive provides a DOS utility that
performs the following:
Performs all the steps in Quick Erase.
Provides a DOS utility that writes random data to all
sectors of the hard drive.
Provide an estimate of time to completion along with
a visual representation of completion status.
Provides messages that warn the user that this is a
non-recoverable process.
Important
Make sure customer backs up all data before using
the Quick or Full Erase function.
To select the Quick Erase or Full Erase Hard Drive utility:
1. Select the UTILITY option on the toolbar and press
enter.
2. Select either the QUICK ERASE or FULL ERASE
HARD DISK option and then, follow the instructions.

Iomega Zip Drive Test

Use the Iomega Zip Drive Test to test the zip drive and the
drive interface. The test takes about 20 seconds to run.
The default tests the following:
Controller
Max Seek (50 times)
Random Seek (300 sectors)

Asset EEPROM backup

When replacing a system board, this utility allows the
backup of all Asset information from the EEPROM to
diskette. This utility also restores data to the EEPROM
from diskette after replacement of the system board.
To run this utility:
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