Jon Tydda
Jon.Tydda at alcontrol.co.uk
Tue May 18 09:45:07 CDT 2004
Might be worth buying a new one... you can get an 80gb drive for under £50 here, about $75-$80? Jon -----Original Message----- From: paul.hartland at fsmail.net [mailto:paul.hartland at fsmail.net] Sent: 18 May 2004 15:41 To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: RE: [dba-Tech] Formatting Hard Drive Is SLOW 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" To : "'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'" Copy to : Subject : RE: [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 -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of paul.hartland at fsmail.net Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 10:33 AM To: dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com Subject: [dba-Tech] Formatting Hard Drive Is SLOW 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 -- Whatever you Wanadoo: http://www.wanadoo.co.uk/time/ This email has been checked for most known viruses - find out more at: http://www.wanadoo.co.uk/help/id/7098.htm _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- Whatever you Wanadoo: http://www.wanadoo.co.uk/time/ This email has been checked for most known viruses - find out more at: http://www.wanadoo.co.uk/help/id/7098.htm _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com The information in this e-mail is confidential and may also be legally privileged. The contents are intended for recipient only and are subject to the legal notice available on request from : webmaster at alcontrol.co.uk ALcontrol Laboratories is a trading division of ALcontrol UK Limited. Registered Office: Templeborough House, Mill Close, Rotherham, S60 1BZ. Registered in England and Wales No 4057291