Conditional format (normal), Letter (c/d) – Epson Apex 20020 User Manual

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Note

If you have more than one hard disk drive, you see this
prompt:

Enter drive

letter (C/D)?

Press

C

or

D

and

then Enter.

Conditional Format (Normal)

Use this option to format the hard disk. All flagged tracks are

marked so that they are never used.

To start the Conditional format, press

1

and then

Enter.

The

program starts to scan the disk to find all tracks flagged as bad,

starting from the innermost cylinder of the disk. During the

scan, you see the number of the cylinder the program is
currently checking. For example, if you have a hard disk, the

first messages you see are:

Format Hard Disk

Scanning for flagged bad tracks...

Current cylinder is nnn

When the scan is complete, the program displays

information about the condition of the disk, like this:

Scanning finished.

Count of tracks flagged bad

=

n

Count of tracks with other errors =

n

Count of good tracks

= n n n n

Physically Formatting a Hard Disk

D-5

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