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Format screen
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6 Format screen
You must format unformatted discs before you can use them with InCD.
Fig. 9: Format screen
To do this, the following option buttons and check boxes are available in the Format screen:
Option buttons
Quick
Only formats the disc logically, i.e. the data on it is not deleted but only the
information about the data contained on it. The disc appears blank and its
full capacity is available even though the old data is still physically avail-
able.
This formatting technique is particularly suitable if a disc is already format-
ted.
However, quick formatting is not suitable if the disc contains confidential
data because this data can still be restored after formatting.
Quick formatting of blank discs is the same as formatting in the back-
ground. Completely new discs that have never been formatted can only be
formatted fully and not quickly.
Full
During formatting, this deletes not only the structure of the file system, but
clears the entire disc - the old data is then no longer physically available.
Select this option if the disc to be formatted contains confidential data.
During formatting, you cannot execute any other commands on the disc being used. If you
have installed multiple drives, you can process any discs inserted there in parallel.