On 7/13/2019 10:39 AM, Jerome Shidel wrote:
On Jul 13, 2019, at 1:17 PM, HTV04 . <htv04ru...@gmail.com
<mailto:htv04ru...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Can I do a full format instead of a quick format?
Yes.
But, I don’t really see a need to do a slow full format on the drive
partition in most situations.
Up to you. :-)
Actually, on an older hard drive, I would in fact recommend to do a full
format, so every sector on the drive/partition is actually accessed and
would reveal any possible problems with that drive, as a quick format is
only clearing/rewriting the basic root directory information on the
beginning of the drive/partition. And then you might run into mysterious
problem slater on, when those possibly bad sectors are being accessed as
they just have to be assumed working by a quick format...
Ralf
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