Starting the Program

Follow these steps to start the hard disk formatting program:

1.Insert the Reference diskette in drive A and log onto drive A.

2.Type HDFMTALL and press [El. You see the Hard Disk Format Menu:

1 - Format

2 - Destructive surface analysis

3- Non-destructive surface analysis0 - Exit

The option you choose depends on whether you are formatting a new disk or reformatting a used disk. The options work as follows:

QFormat first scans the disk for defective (bad) tracks (if it has no defective track table) and lets you decide which tracks to mark as bad. Then it formats the disk and marks the bad tracks so they are never used to store data.

CI Destructive surface analysis tests the entire disk for read/write errors or unflagged bad tracks and updates the defective track table. Because this option writes and reads data on the disk, it destroys all data on any track that produces an error. YOU cannot run this test

on a disk that has never been formatted.

0Non-destructive surface analysis checksthe disk for unflagged bad tracks without destroying data.

You cannot run this test on a disk that has never been format ted.

5-2 Formatting a Hard Disk