Atari Faicon030 Owner's Manual page 133

Fa/con030 Owner's Manual
If your system contains an i nternal hard disk, it w i l l be preformatted by Atari .
Formatting erases al l information from a disk and prepares the disk to accept data.
You may need to format the hard disk if the factory format becomes erased due to
m i shandling or if the hard disk develops bad sectors.
Display the d i rectory of the HDX folder. Fol low these i nstructions to format a hard
d s
i k
:
1 .
Select H D X . PRG. Then select the
2 .
Read the alert mess age that appears on scre e n . If necessary, back up all your data
before proceeding. Select
3.
A d i alog box displays, asking you i f the hard d i s k drive to be formatted i s an A C S I
drive o r a SCSI drive. Select the appropriate drive type. Select
4 .
Select a physical unit ( h ard disk drive) for formatting. I f you are formatting only the
i nternal hard disk, select
select a u n i t t h at corresponds to t h e h ard d i s k ' s D I P s w i tc h settings. (See your hard
d i s k d r i v e o w n e r ' s m a n u a l for i n formation about D I P s w i t c h s e t t i n g s . ) U n i t s i n
s hadowed boxes are the units that are connected t o your system.
II,
UNIT 0
UNIT 4
Figure B . l : The S elect Physical Unit W indow
8-6 Advanced Hard Disk Utilities
OK
U N I T
S e l e c t The Phys i c a l
UNIT 1 UNIT 2
UNIT 5 U N I T 6
CANCEL
Format
option from the Disk menu.
to cont i nue.
O .
I f you are formatting an a d d i t ional h ard d i s k ,
I"
Un i t
UNIT Z
UNIT 7
OK
to continue.