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Formatting a new disk, Selecting an option, Starting the formatting process – Epson 386SX User Manual

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Formatting a New Disk

Many hard disk drives come with a printed list of bad tracks but

without the bad tracks flagged on the disk. Other hard disks

(such as those supplied by Epson) come with the bad tracks

already flagged. If you are formatting a new hard disk that has

never been formatted, select the

1 -Format

option to format

the disk.

Selecting an Option

When using this program, you often need to select an option
from a menu. There are two ways to do this:

You can use the arrow keys

to move the

highlighted cursor block to the option and press

Enter.

You can type the number of the option and press

Enter.

You can select almost any option that appears on the screen
while you are formatting the disk using either of these two

methods. Therefore, when the instructions in this appendix tell

you to select an option, you can either use the arrow keys

to highlight the option or you can type the number of

the option. Then press

Enter.

(You must press

Enter

to start

the operation.)

Starting the Formatting Process

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

Enter drive number ? (1/2)

Select 1 for the first hard disk or

2

for the second hard disk.

Then see the instructions below for the Hard Disk Format

Menu option you want to use.

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Physically Formatting a Hard Disk