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Press Y and then

Enter

to continue with the test. If no errors occur, the

menu is displayed.

An error occurs only if the drive is malfunctioning. In this case, back up

all your files, and have the drive serviced immediately. (The drive may be

corrupting your data.)

Read, verify check

This test reads and verifies data from all tracks of the disk, checking each

cylinder and using both heads.

Select option 4 from the menu to start this test.

The program displays the number of each cylinder it finds. For example,

with a 20MB hard disk, the first message you see is:

Current cylinder is

614

The cylinder number counts down to 0.

At the end of the test, you see a table of the results of the test. For

example, for a 20MB hard disk with no bad tracks, you see:

BAD TRACKS .....................

0

READ ERROR TRACKS ..............

0

GOOD

TRACKS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2460

Press ENTER to return to the menu

Press

Enter

when you have viewed the table.

Run all above checks

To run all the tests on the menu in sequence, press 5 and then

Enter.

When you choose this option, all checks for the hard disk drives and

controller are performed automatically in sequential order. Although you do

not start each test, you must still supply the appropriate responses to progress

from one test to the next. The first prompt you see is:

The data on the highest physical cylinder may be

destroyed by this check.

Enter Y to start this check.

Enter N to return to the menu.

Press Y and then

Enter

to continue with the test.

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