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 three bad tracks, you see the following:
BAD TRACKS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . 0
READ ERROR TRACKS.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 | |
GOOD TRACKS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 2457 |
Press Enter to return to the menu |
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Press Enter when you have viewed the table. Don’t worry if there are some bad tracks on the disk. They have been registered by the manufacturer and will not be used to store data.
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 drive 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. This is the first prompt you see:
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.
Exiting System Diagnostics
When you finish running the system diagnostics, press 0 to exit the program. When the
Performing System Diagnostics |