[dba-Tech] Formatting Hard Drive Is SLOW

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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