Standard CMOS SetupCBI/CGI Technical Reference
Chassis Plans 4-7Select ‘Y’ or ‘N’ as appropriate. You may have to select ‘N’ several times to prevent the
boot sector write.
The following message displays if any attempt is made to format any cylinder, head or
sector of any hard disk drive via the BIOS INT 13 Hard Disk Drive Service:
Format!!! Possible VIRUS: Continue (Y/N)?
Select ‘Y’ or ‘N’ as appropriate. If you select ‘Y’ to continue, formatting proceeds
normally. If you do not want to continue formatting, you may have to select ‘N’ several
times, depending on how many retries are performed by the upper-level software. For
example, DOS does at least five retries before the Format utility is actually terminated.
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NOTE: You should not enable boot sector virus protection when formatting a hard
drive.
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The DOS hard disk Format utility does not use INT 13H function AH=05H to format the
hard disk. It only verifies the hard disk using the INT 13H Verify function (AH=04H).
The virus warning message is not displayed during DOS hard disk drive formatting.
Saving and Exiting
When you have made all desired changes to Standard CMOS Setup, press <Esc> to
return to the AMIBIOS Setup Main Menu screen.
You may make changes to other Setup options before exiting from AMIBIOS Setup.
You may save the changes you have just made or you may exit from Setup without
saving your changes.