> On Jul 13, 2019, at 2:47 PM, Ralf Quint <freedos...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 7/13/2019 10:39 AM, Jerome Shidel wrote: >> >> >> On Jul 13, 2019, at 1:17 PM, HTV04 . <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 > >
You are correct. Old drives, absolutely. However... New drives, no real benefit. ( I remember when you bought a drive and the first thing you needed to do was format to map bad sectors. ) > > Virus-free. www.avast.com > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
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