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Fotmatting the Disk, Press, Enter

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Formatting a Hard Disk Fotmatting 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 Hard Disk Format Menu. B-28 Epson NX Service Manual

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Formatting
a
Hard
Disk
Fotmatting 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 Hard Disk Format Menu.
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Epson
NX
Service
Manual