JP2504650B

A method for auto-formating a HDD operatively attached to a computer system is disclosed and includes the steps of: (A) effecting the CPU to read data of the FDD to determine whether a FLAG 1 file exists in the read data; (B) re-effecting the CPU to read data of FDD and delete temporary files if temporary files exist in the read data; (C) effecting the CPU to determine whether low level formatting has been completed, to access the FDD through the FDC, and to transmit data stored in the memory to the FDD, and form a PREFORM.YES file, if HDD has been low level formatted; (D) storing bad track information acceptable for the capacity of the HDD by effecting the CPU to calculate the capacity of the HDD, and determining a landing zone of the HDD; (E) deleting temporary files resulting when an error at step (D) exists, and renaming the FLAG 1 file to FLAG 2; (F) determining the landing zone and storing a time-converted interrupt at the predetermined address of the memory by effecting the CPU to control the interrupt of the timer for converting the interrupt of the timer into the time; (G) renaming the FLAG 2 file to FLAG 3, and determining whether the PREFORM.YES file exists; (H) formatting the HDD with a low level formatting, and determining whether completed or not such that it restarts, if the formatting has been done without any error; (I) establishing an error file, if an error has occurred at step (H); (J) displaying the error message; and, (K) ending the formatting operation.