QUICK FORMAT or FULL FORMAT - Which one!?!

[CU_AMiGA]

I am gonna reformat my Hard Drive Partitions later on. But the problem is that i can't make up my mind which one to use, people from all angles are saying i should do one or the other. So i am gonna hold a vote to see which one is the better:

1) QUICK FORMAT
2) FULL FORMAT

[KennyR]

Quick. You don't need full.

[lempkee]

if its SFS or PFS...ONLY USE QUICKFORMAT...
(ALWAYS!!!!!)

[lempkee]

full format is important if you use FFS.

[Piru]

There is nothing to vote, really, as you should always use quickformat.

See More HD Trouble ;-( thread for more information.

[Piru]

@lempkee

full format is important if you use FFS.

Now I'm curious: Why?

The only reason I can think of is to make sure that no remains of the previous filesystem remain, in case you need to run recovery on the medium.

[carls]

I've always used quick format, even with FFS drives.

[Brian]

I always use full format... I rather get a message saying that my 20+Gb disk is bad when formating it than when the guarantee have run out and I stand there with a bad disk and worse perhaps lost data.

Sure it takes time but I'm rather safe than sorry even if it meens waiting hours on formating. ;-)

[itix]

Full format doesnt check anything without verify option. Not to
mention it is quite possible your HD goes bad after format

[KennyR]

I think people are still remembering floppy disk format. For those, full format was essential, both when the disk was just bought, and to make sure it had no errors.

But hard drive formatting doesn't work that way, trust me.

[LP]

Quick formated my 30Gb w/FFS

No props for 1 year now...

Seems a good choice :-)

[Ryu]

quick format man! :-)

[Merko]

Full format is a nice idea if you need to make sure that all your
illegal/and or super-secret spy information is erased. And you're sure
that the format command handles the drive size (else it will keep
some of that evidence, AND mess up the filesystem.. ;-))

[mikey2001]

Ive always used quick format with no problems.  :-)

[Crumb]

I always use Full Format with the verify option because if a sector is bad it warns me and that way I know if my hd is broken