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Thread ID: 53855	2005-01-29 04:35:00	format ntfs (quick)	bartsdadhomer (80)	Press F1

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319044	2005-01-29 04:35:00	Having completed dozens of XP installs, I've never bothered to find out why, when asked how you would like to format the partitions after creating them there are 2 options Format using the NTFS filesystem and Format using the NTFS filesystem (quick) Anybody know the difference, I'm assuming the quick means it will format the partition on the fly as it's installing Why have 2 options? Thanks	bartsdadhomer (80)
319045	2005-01-29 04:41:00	Here's how I understand it. A quick format will create the partition in the partition table of the hard drive. This doesn't take long at all. A full format will create the partition in the partition table and then check every sector on the hard drive that the partition spans. This allows it to find and handle bad sectors. It's likely that it will either try to repair a bad sector, or allocate it as unusable (or perhaps both).	agent (30)
319046	2005-01-29 04:46:00	That sounds logical Thanks	bartsdadhomer (80)
319047	2005-01-29 05:44:00	Formatting has nothing to do with creating a partition. You format the partitions after they have been created. A full format creates the file system. A blank hard drive has to have a full format done it the first time it is formatted. A quick format merely looks at an existing formatted partition and blanks the file allocation table so the drive "looks" blank to whatever is reading it. Much faster but ca n only be done to a formatted disk.	ninja (1671)
319048	2005-01-29 07:29:00	Meh....You can do a quick format on a virgen harddrive, It just doesn't check for bad secters. That is all. Been there,done it a dozen hundred times.	Metla (12)
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