Press Y and then Enter to continue with the test. If no errors occur, the menu is displayed.
An error occurs only if the drive is malfunctioning. In this case, back up all your files, and have the drive serviced immediately. (The drive may be corrupting your data.)
Read, verify check
This test reads and verifies data from all tracks of the disk, checking each cylinder and using both heads.
Select option 4 from the menu to start this test.
The program displays the number of each cylinder it finds. For example, with a 20MB hard disk, the first message you see is:
Current cylinder is 614
The cylinder number counts down to 0.
At the end of the test, you see a table of the results of the test. For example, for a 20MB hard disk with no bad tracks, you see:
| BAD | TRACKS | ..................... |
READ | ERROR | TRACKS .............. |
GOOD | TRACKS | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246@ |
| Press ENTER to return to the menu | ||
Press Enter when you have viewed the table. | ||
Run all above checks
To run all the tests on the menu in sequence, press 5 and then Enter.
When you choose this option, all checks for the hard disk drives and controller are performed automatically in sequential order. Although you do not start each test, you must still supply the appropriate responses to progress from one test to the next. The first prompt you see is:
The data on the highest physical cylinder may be destroyed by this check.
Enter Y to start this check. Enter N to return to the menu.
Press Y and then Enter to continue with the test.