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Re: Full format or fast format?
« on: August 25, 2008, 01:51:08 PM »
Often format doesn't actually check if the writing succeeded (that is it doesn't read back the data and verify it). Obviously if the disk is b0rken enough for the write to fail with an error, that will be caught.