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Formating the disk – Epson EQUITY 3865X/20 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

: n n n

Cylinder

: nnnnn

Physically Formatting a Hard Disk

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