Re: Time to Format a 500 GB HDD?

On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:15:39 -0400, "Nota Clu" <tyro01NOT@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I deleted all partitions except 55MB partition and began a full format
(NTFS) to install XP. After about 20 minutes it had only formatted 21%.
Is this normal?
TIA



I forget now how long it took me to format my 500gig drive (over a
year ago) but I think that sounds a bit long tho I wouldn't panic
about it just yet.
.

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