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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" To : "'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'" Copy to : Subject : RE: RE: [dba-Tech] Formatting Hard Drive Is SLOW 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 -----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 10:41 AM 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 _______________________________________________ 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