Formatting harddisk

[Andy.]

I have just fitted a new sata hard disk and am formatting it through the disk manager but it is taking ages.

It is a 500GB disk but has been going for nearly an hour and is only half way through. I am doing a standard NTFS format and nothing else on the machine except a bit of web browsing.

Should it take this long?

 

[BenWall]

No, I use partition magic to do that stuff and that only takes a few seconds

 

[Michael172]

for a full format - yes, if you doing it through setup and not windows. i did a mates 500gb (when i built his computer) sata and it took f**king agers. i would have done a quick format but seen as it was the first time i thought itd be better to do it thoroughly.

 

[jamojamojamo]

Yeh it does, formatted mine through the vista setup, i have 2 sata drives 320gb, and took a good 1h 30mins each to do a full format

 

[Andy.]

two hours now and counting... the end is nearly in sight.

 

[AhmedRSi]

No, I use partition magic to do that stuff and that only takes a few seconds

lol - do you ever click "apply changes"

for a full format - yes, if you doing it through setup and not windows. i did a mates 500gb (when i built his computer) sata and it took f**king agers. i would have done a quick format but seen as it was the first time i thought itd be better to do it thoroughly.

Yeh it does, formatted mine through the vista setup, i have 2 sata drives 320gb, and took a good 1h 30mins each to do a full format

Yeh, these guys are telling the truth. To do a full format in ntsf takes long, I would always do "slow" format just in case.

 

[Andy.]

^^Agreed. With 500GB of data, I don't really want it cocking up.