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Re: Full format or fast format?
« on: August 25, 2008, 09:00:40 AM »
On Microsoft OS installs, you get the option of a quick or full format even with brand new (i.e. previously unformatted) HDs. A quick format works fine. This applies to servers, with professional RAID and Desktops, so I think a quick format is OK.
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