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MiniStation All-in-One Petit Board User’s Manual

Award BIOS Setup

5.15 Hard Disk Low Level Format Utility

This Award Low-Level-Format Utility is designed as a tool to save your time formatting your hard disk. The

utility automatically looks for the necessary information of the drive you selected. This utility also searches

for bad tracks and lists them for your reference.

Shown below is the Main Menu after you enter into the Award Low-Level-Format Utility.

Hard Disk Low Level Format Utility

BAD TRACKS TABLE

NO. CYLS HEAD

SELECT DRIVE

BAD TRACK LIST

PREFORMAT

Current select drive is : C

DRIVE: C CYLINDER : 0 HEAD: 0

Size CYLS Head Precomp Landz Sector Mode

Primary Master: 0 0 0 0 0 0 AUTO

Primary Slave: 0 0 0 0 0 0 AUTO

Up/Down - Select item Enter - Accept ESC-Exit/Abort

z Control Keys

Use the Up and Down arrow keys to move around the selections displayed on the upper screen. Press <Enter> to

accept the selection. Press <Esc> to abort the selection or exit the utility.

z Select Drive

Select from installed hard disk drive C or D. Listed at the bottom of the screen is the drive automatically detected

by the utility.

z Bad Track List

 Auto scan bad track

The utility will automatically scan bad tracks and list the bad tracks on the window at the right side of the

screen.

 Add bad track

Directly type in the information of the known bad tracks on the window at the right side of the screen.

 Modify bad track

Modify the information of the added bad tracks in the window at the right side of the screen.

 Delete bad track

Delete the added bad tracks on the window at the right side of the screen.

 Clear bad track table

Clear the whole bad track list on the window at the right side of the screen.

z Preformat

 Interleave

Select the interleave number of the hard disk drive you wish to perform low level format. You may select

from 1 to 8. Check the documentation that came with the drive for the correct interleave number, or select 0

for utility automatic detection.

 Auto scan bad track

This allows the utility to scan first then format by each track.

 Start

Press <Y> to start low level format.