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Multitasking during formatting of external harddrive

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‎08-29-2009 04:03 PM

I have a 1-terabyte hardrive that I started formatting again after I returned a faulty one. I know from before that it takes roughly 12 hours to complete. My new laptop has 6 gigabytes of RAM and has a dual core intel processor. Before I go running applications that require alot of memory or play games that have decent graphics should I worry about the formatting? Will it give me some error when it reaches 99%? Will it crash? I appreciate any feedback, let me know your opinion or what you've experienced before.
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Re: Multitasking during formatting of external harddrive

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‎09-02-2009 08:29 AM

I think the worst that might happen is that it might fail the format and corrupt it, and you'd have to format it again.


On the other hand, if you're not doing some complete zero-fill, you can just tell Windows to run a quick format and you'll be in good shape.  That option appears in one of the last windows of the Disk Management reformatting process wizard.

 

The regular (non-quick) format includes a chkdsk action, but there's usually no need to do that.

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