Formatting the disk – Epson Endeavor User Manual

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Formatting the Disk

When you are ready to start formatting the disk, you see the

following warning:

WARNING! ALL DATA WILL BE DESTROYED IN ALL

PARTITIONS

OF

HARD DISK, NOT JUST IN MS-DOS

PARTITION!

Do you

want to start formatting ?

(Y/N)

If you are not sure you want to format the hard disk, select

N.

If

you are sure, select

Y

;

the program gives you one more chance

to cancel:

DOUBLE CHECK THAT YOU HAVE BACKUP DISKETTE

COPIES

OF

ALL YOUR FILES.

Do you want to exit and check your

file

copies ?

(Y/N)

Select

Y

to cancel formatting or

N

to continue. If you continue

with formatting, you see:

Format started.

Head

: nnn

Cylinder :

nnnnn

You see the head and cylinder numbers decrease as the

program progresses.

When formatting is complete, the program flags any bad tracks

and you see a series of messages like these:

Format finished.

Flagging bad tracks...

Cylinder is

nnnn, head is nn

Format

completed.

Press ENTER to return to the menu.

Press

to return to the Hard Disk Format Menu.

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