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Formatting the disk – Epson 3865X Plus 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 (and check your backups) or

N

to

continue.

If you continue with formatting, you see:

Format started.

Head

: nnn

Cylinder

: nnnnn

Physically Formatting a Hard Disk

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