Selecting a Drive

If you have more than one hard disk drive, you see this prompt:

Enter drive number ? (l/2)

Select 1 for the first hard disk or 2 for the second hard disk. Then see the instructions below for the Hard Disk Format Menu option you want to use.

Option 1, Format

If you select Format from the Hard Disk Format Menu, you see the following (for a disk with no defective track table):

Format Hard Disk < Drive R: >Scan hard disk to get defective track information? (Y/N)

(If the disk already has a defective track table, you do not see this because you do not need to scan for bad tracks.)

1.Select Y to scan the disk or N to skip the scanning process. If you select Y, the program scans the disk and displays these messages during the process:

Scanning for flagged bad tracks...Head : nnn Cylinder : nnnnn

After scanning the disk, the program displays the results, such as the following:

Scanning finished.

 

 

Count of tracksflagged bad

=

1

Count

of trackswith other errors =

0

Count

of good tracks

= 4884

5-4 Formatting a Hard Disk