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Option I, Format
If you select
Format
from the Hard Disk Format Menu, you
see the following (for a disk with no defective track table):
Format Hard Disk
< Drive n: >
Scan hard disk to get defective track
information? (Y/N)
(If the disk already has a defective track table, you do not see
this because you do not need to scan for bad tracks.)
1.
Select
Y
to scan the disk or
N
to skip the scanning process.
If you select
Y
, the program scans the disk and displays these
messages during the process:
Scanning for flagged bad tracks...
Head
: nnn Cylinder : nnnnn
You see the head and cylinder numbers decrease as the
program progresses. After scanning the disk, the program
displays the results, such as the following:
Scanning finished.
Count of tracks flagged bad
=
1
Count of tracks with other errors =
0
Count of good tracks
= 4884
2.
Next you see the following prompt:
Accept recommended skewed sectors in
format
: 1 ? (Y/N)
Formatting a Hard Disk B-5