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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
check for all tracks...
current cylinder is nnnn
As the program checks each track, it decreases the cylinder
numbers to zero.
When the test is complete, the program displays a report on the
status of the disk, including a table of unflagged tracks that
produced write, read errors-such as the following:
Analysis finished.
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.
B-10 Formatting a Hard Disk