When the scan is complete, the program displays information about the condition of the disk. For a hard disk with no bad tracks, the display looks like this:

Scanning finished.

Count of tracks flagged bad

Count of tracks with other errors Count of good tracks

=0

=0

=nnnn

The program then displays a warning about the consequences of proceeding with formatting:

WARNING! ALL DATA WILL BE DESTROYED IN ALL PARTITIONS OF HARD DISK, NOT JUST IN MS-DOS PARTITION!

Do you want to start formatting (Y/N)?

If there are no tracks with other errors, and you are absolutely sure that you want to format the hard disk, press Y and Enter. The program then asks you once more if you want to continue. You see this message and prompt:

DOUBLE CHECK THAT YOU HAVE BACKUP DISKETTE COPIES OF ALL YOUR FILES.

Do you want to exit and check your file copies

(Y/N) ?

When you are certain no valuable data will be destroyed, press N and Enter.

If you cancel formatting at either stage, you see these messages:

Format cancelled.

Press ENTER to return to the menu.

If you continue with formatting, you see:

Format started.

Current cylinder is xxxx

D-4 Physically Formatting a Hard Disk