IMPORTANT
Because several of these selections destroy all information on the fixed disk drive, you may need to reinitialize the fixed disk drive.
For more information on initializing the fixed disk drive, refer to operating system documentation.
The following paragraphs describe the Format Menu selections.
Conditional Format
The Conditional Format selection reads the disk to find tracks formatted as unusable, reformats the entire disk, and then restores the original unusable track information. It then performs a complete surface analysis to find other unusable tracks.
NOTE: The computer must be turned on for at least 20 minutes before formatting the fixed disk drive.
Also, it is very important that this test be allowed to run to completion once started. If the test does not run to completion,
When the Conditional Format completes without error, repeat the Fixed Disk Drive test to verify that the fixed disk drive and the fixed disk drive controller (if applicable) are functioning prop- erly.
Unconditional Format
The Unconditional Format selection formats all tracks as good, except for those entered by the user. This test accepts a list of usable tracks from the user, reformats the entire disk, and then reformats as unusable the tracks entered by the user. Additionally, you may elect to run a Surface Analysis automatically after the Unconditional Format.
