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Date: | Thu, 2 Apr 1998 14:06:56 -0800 |
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"Lindstrom, Rick" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi-
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> How long does it take to format a hard drive of, say, 1.2 gig once you have
> activated Format?
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> 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.
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> The format process gave the message-
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> "Trying to recover allocation unit xxxx.xx"
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This means that there are sector errors on the disk.
> alternating with-
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> "XX % complete
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> 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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Russ Poffenberger Engineering Specialist
Schlumberger Technologies ATE DOMAIN: [log in to unmask]
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