Formatting the Disk

When you are ready to start formatting the disk, you see the following warning:

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 you are not sure you want to format the hard disk, select N. If you are sure, select Y; the program gives you one more chance to cancel:

DOUBLE CHECK THAT YOU HAVE BACKUP DISKETTE COPIES OF ALL YOUR FILES. Do you want to exit and check your file copies ? (Y/N)

Select Y to cancel formatting (and check your backups) or N to continue.

If you continue with formatting, you see:

Format started.

Head : n n n

Cylinder : nnnnn

Physically Formatting a Hard Disk B-9