Formatting a hard disk

[Bill Ridgeway]

What are the relative advantages (in practical not technical terms) between
a 'quick' and a full (NTFS) format please?

Thanks.

Bill Ridgeway

 

[Bill Ridgeway]

I've now found the answer. Apologies for posting!

Regards.

Bill Ridgeway

 

[Guest]

Well what was the answer?
thanks

I've now found the answer. Apologies for posting!

Regards.

Bill Ridgeway

 

[Bill Ridgeway]

<<When you choose to run a regular format on a volume, files are removed
from the volume that you are formatting and the hard disk is scanned for bad
sectors. The scan for bad sectors is responsible for the majority of the
time that it takes to format a volume.>> Source:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/302686

Regards.

Bill Ridgeway