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 writes, reads, and verifies information on every track, except those that are already flagged as bad.
Caution
If any errors occur during this check, all data on the track that caused the error is destroyed. If you think that an unflagged bad track is causing trouble, first run the
To start this test, select Destructive surface analysis from the Hard Disk Format Menu. You see these messages:
Analyze Hard Disk <Drive n:>
Read/Save/Write/Read/Restore/Read c h e c k f o r a l l t r a c k s . . .
C u r r e n t c y l i n d e r i s nnnn
As the program checks each track, it decreases the cylinder numbers to zero. When the test is complete, you see a report on the disk status, including a table of unflagged tracks that produced write, read
| Analysis | finished. |
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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.
Formatting a Hard Disk