"Lindstrom, Rick" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi-
>
> How long does it take to format a hard drive of, say, 1.2 gig once you have
> activated Format?
>
> I'm asking because I'm doing a reinstall for a friend that involves a
> reformat, and it looked like it might take over an hour once it got
> started. Is this normal? I left and told her to call me when it was complete.
>
> The format process gave the message-
>
> "Trying to recover allocation unit xxxx.xx"
>

This means that there are sector errors on the disk.

> alternating with-
>
> "XX % complete
>
> I guess it's obvious that I've never done this before, right?

When it has to process "around" bad sectors, it takes a much longer time to
format. Normally a 1.2Gb disk should high level format in just a few minutes.



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