Hi,
Ian, did you run the Wd diagnostics on the drive?
Did you try formatting in a completely different system that you know
works well?
Thanks and have a Great Day!
Joe Lore
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A used but fairly new 40Gb Western Digital drive is taking around 30-35
secs to format EACH PERCENT, in other words, almost 55 minutes to format
the whole drive.
The system is about 18 months old, with a 1.4 Ghz Athlon, Shuttle AK31
mobo and 256 Mb DDR ram.
The format is being done in DOS using format.com from a W98SE system. I
used fdisk to set the drive up with 2x 20Mb partitions. C partition was
formatted with the /s switch, though I don't think that's a factor -
each partition is equally slow to format.
The system came to me with troubles - I'm wondering if this slow
formatting is indicative of anything.
Ideas would be appreciated.
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