Note

If you have more than one hard disk drive, you see this

prompt:

E n t e r d r i v e l e t t e r ( C / D ) ?

Press C or D and then Enter.

Conditional Format (Normal)

Use this option to format the hard disk. All flagged tracks are marked so that they are never used.

To start the Conditional format, press 1 and then Enter. The program starts to scan the disk to find all tracks flagged as bad, starting from the innermost cylinder of the disk. During the scan, you see the number of the cylinder the program is currently checking. For example, if you have a hard disk, the first messages you see are:

Format Hard DiskScanning for flagged bad tracks...Current cylinder is nnn

When the scan is complete, the program displays information about the condition of the disk, like this:

Scanning finished.

Count of tracks flagged bad

=

n

Count of tracks with other errors =

n

Count of good tracks= nnnn

Physically Formatting a Hard Disk

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