[dba-Tech] Formatting Hard Drive Is SLOW

paul.hartland at fsmail.net paul.hartland at fsmail.net
Tue May 18 10:17:27 CDT 2004


BIOS is on auto, not sure what it is identified as, will check when I get in...
Thanks to everyone so far for you help.
Paul Hartland





Message date : May 18 2004, 04:15 PM
>From : "Bobby Heid" 
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I forwarded your question on to another list and here are the 2 responses so
far:

Reply #1
Is the drive identified correctly in Bios? Is the bios on auto or did 
someone enter manual parameters? Is it identified as LBA or Large? Large 
will give you problems.

Reply #2
Bad sectors on the hard drive? Bad cable? CMOS config problem? I've seen 
hard drives that ran abnormally slow, and I generally phonebooked them and 
sent them back (assuming warranty.)

I'd check the CMOS settings and cable first.


HTH,
Bobby

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anything else I can try to Format the drive then, as if it only does 1%
every 15mins that means roughly leaving the computer on for around 25 hours
just to format the drive.





Message date : May 18 2004, 03:37 PM
>From : "Bobby Heid"
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Seeing as how it is a 20GB (which implies having some age to it), it may be
that there are bad sectors that the system is finding and having to do a
bunch of retries.

Bobby

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To all,
I have a friends PC at home AMD Athlon 650, 20gb Hard Drive whihc he wanted
wiped and reformatted. Never had any problems doing this before so I backed
up all his important data, booted the PC with a windows 98 startup disk and
FDisked the Hard Drive, so far not a problem, however when I re-booted and
tried formatting its formatting the drive at roughly 1% every 15 minutes.
This seems to be far too slow to me as I have a 40gb hard drive at home with
an AMD 1gb processor and only takes about 15 mins if I ever want to format
it. Anyone any ideas on what could be happening, or how to speed the format
up. Paul Hartland

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