Tandy 1000 MS-DOS Reference Manual page 125

Chapter 6 / Command Reference
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drive is the hard disk to be formatted. Your primary hard disk is
Drive C, a secondary hard disk is designated Drive D. If you
omit drive, HSECT uses Drive C.
Notes and Suggestions
• Appendix D outlines the entire hard disk setup procedure.
Refer to this appendix as necessary when setting up your
hard disk.
• To begin the hard disk format process, power up your com-
puter and insert an MS-DOS diskette into Drive A. Insert the
Hard Disk Utilities diskette into Drive B, and boot your sys-
tem.
(If
you only have one floppy drive, replace the MS-DOS
diskette with the Hard Disk Utilities diskette after booting.)
• Warning:
if you want to format Drive D, be sure to specify
D:. Otherwise, HSECT uses the default, Drive C, destroying
all data on that drive.
• To cancel the HSECT operation, press [@ or
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[Q].
• At the end of the process, the screen displays:
Format completed!
Example
h:oect c:
loads HSECT from the current drive, and formats the hard sec-
tors of Drive C. The prompt,
Format completed!,
appears
when the process is finished.
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