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From: Rob808 on 26 Nov 2007 18:40

I'm formating a 500gb External HD and it's taking forever. Is it safe to
run other apps. (games, DL's, ect.) while it's formating or better to
let it finish first?


From: Eric Gisin on 27 Nov 2007 19:27
DOS/WinNT has never actually formatted partitions, there is no such command.

Long format, like Chkdsk /R, does a SCSI VERIFY which USB bridge translates to IDE.
This does not transfer data, so I don't know why it would take more than an hour per platter.
As long as CPU is not significant, it is not affected by other applications.

"Rob808" <Rob808.30qbwy(a)no.email.invalid> wrote in message news:Rob808.30qbwy(a)no.email.invalid...
>
> I'm formating a 500gb External HD and it's taking forever. Is it safe to
> run other apps. (games, DL's, ect.) while it's formating or better to
> let it finish first?
>
>
From: Folkert Rienstra on 28 Nov 2007 16:25
Eric Gisin wrote in news:13kpkkv1158re3f(a)corp.supernews.com
> DOS/WinNT has never actually formatted partitions, there is no such command.
>
> Long format, like Chkdsk /R, does a SCSI VERIFY which USB bridge translates
> to IDE.
> This does not transfer data, so I don't know why it would take more than an
> hour per platter.
> As long as CPU is not significant, it is not affected by other applications.

Our Timmy just jumped up for joy.

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> "Rob808" <Rob808.30qbwy(a)no.email.invalid> wrote in message news:Rob808.30qbwy(a)no.email.invalid...
> >
> > I'm formating a 500gb External HD and it's taking forever. Is it safe to
> > run other apps. (games, DL's, ect.) while it's formating or better to
> > let it finish first?
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