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Low Level format time
« on: May 10, 2008, 05:07:35 PM »
How long does it normally take to low level format a hard drive?  I have a 4Gig drive that has been running for 9 days so far.

 

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Re: Low Level format time
« Reply #1 on: May 10, 2008, 07:54:30 PM »
Forgot one piece of info, it is a SCSI drive, not IDE.


 

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Re: Low Level format time
« Reply #2 on: May 11, 2008, 02:21:51 AM »
It has been a few years, but wasn't a low level format used to add bad sectors to the bad sector list on the HD so that data wasn't written to that area?