To start this test, select 2-Destructive surface analysis from the Hard Disk Format Menu. You see these messages:

Analyze Hard Disk <Drive 1:>

Read/Save/Write/Read/Restore/Read

check for all tracks...

Current cylinder is nnnn

As the program checks each track, it counts the cylinder numbers (nnnn) down to zero. When the test is complete, the program displays a report on the status of the disk, including a table of unflagged tracks that produced write, read errors-such as the following:

Analysis

finished.

 

 

Count

of

tracks

flagged bad

zz

n

Count

of

tracks

with write, read errors

=

n

Count of good tracks

= nnnn

No write, read error was detected.

No data was destroyed.

Press ENTER to return to the menu.

If the program finds one bad track that is not flagged, the summary would show one track with a write, read error. The report is followed by a table like this:

Write, Read Error Tracks

Cylinder Head Cylinder Head C y l i n d e r Head Cylinder Head I

Confirm to register the tracks in the Write, Read Error Track

 

1,Y,N).a::: as :d tracks.

1

Do you want to register the error tracks as bad tracks?

Physically Formatting a Hard Disk D-11