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

The head and cylinder numbers decrease as the program progresses.

When formatting is complete, the program flags any bad tracks and you see a series of messages like these:

Format finished.

Flagging bad tracks...

Cylinder is nnnn, head is nn

Format completed.

Press Enter to return to the menu.

Press m to return to the Hard Disk Format Menu.

Option 2, Destructive Surface Analysis

You can perform a Destructive surface analysis of your hard disk to accurately locate any bad tracks and flag them, if they are not flagged. The test operates by a complex process of writing, reading, and verifying information on every track of the hard disk, except for tracks that are already flagged as bad tracks.

Physically Formatting a Hard Disk A - 9