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About how long to long format 500 GB My Book
Hi,
I wanted to format a new 500 GB My Book Essential USB 2.0 External to NTFS and was curious as to how long a "long format" should be expected to take. I am using the Long vs. Quick method this first time around to catch any bad sectors. My system: Dell 8300 BIOS A07 1.25 GB RAM 2.8 GHz Intel Win XP Pro SP 2 Would the overall time be greatly affected by my doing other tasks on other drives while it is formatting? Does it matter if other USB external devices are attached? Thanks everyone, Steve |
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About how long to long format 500 GB My Book
I am going to guess around an hour, I just did a long format on a 250 and it seemed like a half hour
to 45 minutes but I didn't watch the exact time. -- Dave Vair CNE, CNA, MCP, A+, N+ wrote in message oups.com... Hi, I wanted to format a new 500 GB My Book Essential USB 2.0 External to NTFS and was curious as to how long a "long format" should be expected to take. I am using the Long vs. Quick method this first time around to catch any bad sectors. My system: Dell 8300 BIOS A07 1.25 GB RAM 2.8 GHz Intel Win XP Pro SP 2 Would the overall time be greatly affected by my doing other tasks on other drives while it is formatting? Does it matter if other USB external devices are attached? Thanks everyone, Steve |
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About how long to long format 500 GB My Book
I wouldn't bother -- never do.
Accidently did one on an internal 750gb drive and gave up and went to lunch. Don't know how long it ran, but at least 90 minutes. wrote in message oups.com... Hi, I wanted to format a new 500 GB My Book Essential USB 2.0 External to NTFS and was curious as to how long a "long format" should be expected to take. I am using the Long vs. Quick method this first time around to catch any bad sectors. My system: Dell 8300 BIOS A07 1.25 GB RAM 2.8 GHz Intel Win XP Pro SP 2 Would the overall time be greatly affected by my doing other tasks on other drives while it is formatting? Does it matter if other USB external devices are attached? Thanks everyone, Steve |
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About how long to long format 500 GB My Book
I believe that the My Book uses the Western Digital hard drive.
Get the WD Data lifeguard tools (for Windows) and us it to format the hard drive. http://support.wdc.com/download/index.asp?swid=1 It's way faster to format a hard drive using the software available from the hard drive manufacturer over Microsoft's formatting software. Western Digital software for Western Digital hard drives Seagate Software for Seagate drives You get the picture? I use Seagate's Diskwizard software for my Seagate drives. wrote in message oups.com... Hi, I wanted to format a new 500 GB My Book Essential USB 2.0 External to NTFS and was curious as to how long a "long format" should be expected to take. I am using the Long vs. Quick method this first time around to catch any bad sectors. My system: Dell 8300 BIOS A07 1.25 GB RAM 2.8 GHz Intel Win XP Pro SP 2 Would the overall time be greatly affected by my doing other tasks on other drives while it is formatting? Does it matter if other USB external devices are attached? Thanks everyone, Steve |
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About how long to long format 500 GB My Book
It's way faster to format a hard drive using the software available from the hard drive manufacturer over Microsoft's formatting software. Thanks for this tip and everyone else for theirs, Steve. |
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About how long to long format 500 GB My Book
"Rod Speed" wrote in message
wrote: Hi, I wanted to format a new 500 GB My Book Essential USB 2.0 External to NTFS and was curious as to how long a "long format" should be expected to take. I am using the Long vs. Quick method this first time around to catch any bad sectors. Waste of time now with modern hard drives that do that stuff for themselves. But the drive needs to have a reason to look at each sector, no? The format will give it a reason. -- Reply in group, but if emailing add another zero, and remove the last word. |
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About how long to long format 500 GB My Book
Tom Del Rosso wrote
Rod Speed wrote wrote I wanted to format a new 500 GB My Book Essential USB 2.0 External to NTFS and was curious as to how long a "long format" should be expected to take. I am using the Long vs. Quick method this first time around to catch any bad sectors. Waste of time now with modern hard drives that do that stuff for themselves. But the drive needs to have a reason to look at each sector, no? Nope, it keeps track of what sectors get accessed. The format will give it a reason. Pointless, use will do that fine. |
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About how long to long format 500 GB My Book
In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Tom Del Rosso wrote:
"Rod Speed" wrote in message wrote: Hi, I wanted to format a new 500 GB My Book Essential USB 2.0 External to NTFS and was curious as to how long a "long format" should be expected to take. I am using the Long vs. Quick method this first time around to catch any bad sectors. Waste of time now with modern hard drives that do that stuff for themselves. But the drive needs to have a reason to look at each sector, no? The format will give it a reason. True. But if you want to do that, run a long SMART selftest instead. The problem with the long format is that you will not see problems the drive could correct. Basically the format-test will not tell you anything, unless the drive has really serious problems. The SMART self-test will, as it will also change the SMART attributes. The drive itself will tell you how long it is expected to take for the long self-test. Unfortunately you will have to remove the drive from its enclosure and connect it directly via (S)ATA, since SMART does not work over USB (the SMART stuff is not part of the USB storage command set....). Arno |
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About how long to long format 500 GB My Book
Tom Del Rosso wrote:
"Rod Speed" wrote in message wrote: Hi, I wanted to format a new 500 GB My Book Essential USB 2.0 External to NTFS and was curious as to how long a "long format" should be expected to take. I am using the Long vs. Quick method this first time around to catch any bad sectors. Waste of time now with modern hard drives that do that stuff for themselves. But the drive needs to have a reason to look at each sector, no? The format will give it a reason. Not any more, that's done at the factory. Use quick format. I wouldn't bother with a full format/scan unless I suspected there was something wrong with the HDD. As always, YMMV |
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