User`s guide

AlphaBIOS Console 5-27
To format a FAT partition
1. Start AlphaBIOS and select Hard Disk Setup. Press Enter.
2. Select the partition to be formatted (see
➊ in Figure 5-17).
3. Press F6. A dialog box is displayed, asking whether to perform a quick or
standard format (see
➋). If you select Quick Format, the formatting is
completed immediately, but no bad sectors are mapped. If you select Standard
Format, a dialog box similar to that in Figure 5-18 is displayed while the drive
is formatted, showing the progress of the formatting. Standard formatting maps
bad sectors.
4. Select a format method, and press Enter.
Figure 5-18 Standard Formatting
Hard Disk Setup
Disk 0 QLISP1040 #0, SCSI ID 3 510 MB
Partition 1 200 MB NTFS
Partition 2 200 MB Unrecognized
Unused 100 MB
Disk 1 NCRC810 #0, SCSI ID 5 1001 MB
Partition 1 995 MB NTFS
Partition 2 6 MB FAT
Formatting…
25%
ESC =Cancel