Caution

If any errors occur during this check, all data on the track that produces the error is destroyed. For this reason, if you suspect an unflagged bad track is causing trouble, first run option 3, Non-destructive surface analysis, to check the disk

surface.

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

Analyze Hard Disk

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 disk status report, such as the following:

Analysis finished.

Count of tracks flagged bad= 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.

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