Epson Apex, User Manual

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When the scan is complete, the program displays information
about the condition of the disk. For a 20MB hard disk with no
bad tracks, the display looks like this:
Scanning finished.
Count of tracks flagged bad
=
0
Count of tracks with other errors = 0
Count of good tracks
=
0
The program then displays a warning about the consequences of
proceeding with formatting:
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 there are no other tracks with other errors and you are
absolutely sure that you want to format the hard disk, press Y
then
Enter.
The program then asks you once more if you want to continue.
You see this message and prompt:
DOUBLE CHECK THAT YOU HAVE BACKUP
DISKETTE COPIES OF ALL YOUR FILES.
Do you want to exit and check your file
copies (Y/N)?
When you are certain that you won’t lose any valuable data,
press N and
Enter.
If you cancel formatting at either stage, you see these messages:
Format cancelled.
Press ENTER to return to the menu.
If you continue with formatting, you see:
Now formatting . . .
Preparing a Hard Disk For Use B-5