Epson EISA Desktop User Manual

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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

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