Holy crap! Ever formatted 300G's?

[ChrisIsBored]

I have 4 80G IDE Maxtor's that are spanned together so they show up as a single drive in windows. I started formatting the thing like 3 hours ago. I came back to check on the status and it's only at 9% :Q

 

[new99]

lucky you.. small price to pay for the 300g's once they are on ur lap.

 

[ChrisIsBored]

yeah... just hope I never have to format them again... this will probably take til tomorrow morning to finish...

 

Dang !
Ever hear of "Quick format" ?
What are you formatting it with ?

 

[Utterman]

next time try format C: /q

It should format in a few minutes.

 

[Budman]

Quick format will only work if the drive was formatted before, since they are newly joined to make 1 big drive regular format is the only way to go.

Next time if you need to format the /Q switch will work.

 

[Sundog]

Yep, budman has it!! Just gotta wait the first time.

 

[Hardware]

just format one at a tame and add it to the span drives!

 

[Mltsao]

Formating 300G's is well worth the wait. Think of all the Mp3s, porn, apps, movies, pics, and game you can put on those babies.

 

That's why I love this place,I learn something new every time I visit

 

[ChrisIsBored]

Quick format will only work if the drive was formatted before, since they are newly joined to make 1 big drive regular format is the only way to go.

I figured as such... I tried a few times to quick format but it just wouldn't allow me. Even canceled starting the full format to try and see if quick would work but to no avail...

So now it's slowly charging on... I know I know.. you guys feel sympathy for me

 

[Demonicon]

Roger, I was just about to post the same thing.

 

[Bluga]

AREN'T new drives already come pre-formatted?

 

[ChrisOh]

no drives come preformatted since theres a big variety of different formats you can do... fat32, ntfs, etc...

 

[Raincity]

You know the saying "go have a beer while the drive is formatting" Jesus at the time it takes to format 300 gigs you might want to go get a keg.

Rain

 

[Insane3D]

Windows XP has a quick format option in it's setup program that works fine on brand new, non-formatted drives...

 

[Byte]

Well i was quickly building a new system with 80GB on it (new drive) and installed WinXP Pro OEM. It asked me to format to NTFS, being quick, i just went for it. It finished formatting in like 20 seconds? I was like WTH? Anyways it's still working fine. Does NTFS have some thing to format as you use the drive or something !!??!?

 

[ChrisIsBored]

I'm using Win2k on the 9G SCSI drive which has all the OS and stuff...

Good news though... it's now at 31%!!! I should be finished before Sunday.

 

[Sunner]

Only in Solaris, didnt take that long

 

[Adul]

chrisisbored <--- sounds like you will be until the format is finished.

 

[ElFenix]

damn dude... is it RAID 0 or something?

/me woulda left all 4 drives to themselves

 

[AMDPwred]

That's why I love this place,I learn something new every time I visit

Exactly what I was thinking

 

[Savarak]

You should've done RAID0 spanning vs raid0... if a drive fails the entire set is "bad"... but the RAID0 has the speed

 

[JetBlack69]

If you have Norton's Ghost program, you should create an image of the 300Gs right after you format. Then, when you need to format again, you can just ghost the blank image right back on. It should be a heck of a lot faster.

 

[Alfred]

Partition magic helps you to skip the format procedure