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formatting 1tb drive
i am in the process of re-formatting a 1 tb drive.
about how long is it supposed to take. tia |
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On 11/12/2010 05:35 PM, dgreger@homesc wrote:
i am in the process of re-formatting a 1 tb drive. about how long is it supposed to take. tia Depends if you're doing the quick or long format. If you enlighten us, we may be able to enlighten you. -- Alias |
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dgreger@homesc wrote:
i am in the process of re-formatting a 1 tb drive. about how long is it supposed to take. Sounds like you didn't tick "quick format" ... I'd expect several hours! |
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dgreger@homesc wrote:
i am in the process of re-formatting a 1 tb drive. about how long is it supposed to take. tia Let's guess at transfer rate is 60MB/sec. That would be 16 seconds per gigabyte. Or 16000 seconds to do the whole 1TB disk. Divide by 3600 gives 4.4 hours. Or could be a little more or a little less. Let it finish. Paul |
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On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 11:35:36 -0500, dgreger@homesc wrote:
i am in the process of re-formatting a 1 tb drive. about how long is it supposed to take. It depends on the particular drive--its speed and the interface with the computer it uses. But it should be several hours, no matter what. |
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Sunny Bard wrote:
dgreger@homesc wrote: i am in the process of re-formatting a 1 tb drive. about how long is it supposed to take. Sounds like you didn't tick "quick format" ... I'd expect several hours! I've often wondered how a 'quick' format works. I assume it only sets up the drive with partition info and the OS just formats as it lays the data on the drive. Or else it doesn't check for bad blocks, mark any bad blocks nor test it. -- LSMFT Simple job, assist the assistant of the physicist. |
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LSMFT wrote:
I've often wondered how a 'quick' format works. I assume it only sets up the drive with partition info Yep it doesn't check for bad blocks, mark any bad blocks nor test it. That's about it, modern drives do a lot of error detection/correction and transparent re-mapping of failed sectors behind the scenes. Quick format is also handy when your data is stored on a true RAID array or SAN where formatting is a pure waste of time. |
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i am in the process of re-formatting a 1 tb drive. about how long is it supposed to take. tia -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The last time I formatted (long) a large drive was a 500Gb IDE (x7200) off a L7VTA running an AMD 2400+. It took about 40 minutes. So a 1Tb drive should take somewhat less than two hours. [Format + Win XP Pro installation took just under an hour.] However you don't say whether it's IDE, SCSI or USB. They'll all be different. jim |
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"LSMFT" wrote in message ... Sunny Bard wrote: dgreger@homesc wrote: i am in the process of re-formatting a 1 tb drive. about how long is it supposed to take. Sounds like you didn't tick "quick format" ... I'd expect several hours! I've often wondered how a 'quick' format works. I assume it only sets up the drive with partition info and the OS just formats as it lays the data on the drive. Or else it doesn't check for bad blocks, mark any bad blocks nor test it. "quick format" ... only works if same format before and after a format It wouldn't matter if you're going from "no format" or from FAT to NTFS, it would still need to do a FULL format , even if you check quick format |
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