IBM 6648, 6578, 6579, 6269, 6059, 6058, 6569, 6568, 6649 manual Quick and Full erase hard drive

Quick and Full erase - hard drive

The IBM PC Enhanced Diagnostics Program offers two hard drive format utilities:

vQuick Erase Hard Drive

vFull Erase Hard Drive

The Quick Erase Hard Drive provides a DOS utility that performs the following steps.

vDestroys the Master Boot Record (MBR) on the hard drive.

vDestroys all copies of the FAT Table on all partitions (both the master and backup).

vDestroys the partition table.

vProvides messages that warn the user that this is a non-recoverable process.

The Full Erase Hard Drive provides a DOS utility that performs the following steps.

vPerforms all the steps in Quick Erase.

vProvides a DOS utility that writes random data to all sectors of the hard drive.

vProvide an estimate of time to completion along with a visual representation of completion status.

vProvides messages that warn the user about non-recoverable process.

Important: Make sure that the customer backs up all data before using the Quick or Full Erase function.

To select the Quick Erase or Full Erase Hard Drive utility, use the following procedure.

1.Select the UTILITY option on the toolbar and press Enter.

2.Select either the QUICK ERASE or FULL ERASE HARD DISK option and follow the instructions.

Iomega Zip drive test

Use the Iomega Zip Drive Test to test the Zip drive and the drive interface. The test takes about 20 seconds to run.

The default tests the following:

vController

vMax Seek (50 times)

vRandom Seek (300 sectors)

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