On 7/13/2019 2:37 PM, Jerome Shidel wrote:
On Jul 13, 2019, at 2:47 PM, Ralf Quint <freedos...@gmail.com
<mailto: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
<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
You are correct. Old drives, absolutely.
However... New drives, no real benefit.
Well, out friend states
I wanted to revive my old computer (a Compaq Prosignia 150) that
originally had Windows 98
That means it is likely a 19-20 year old AMD-K6 based computer, which
most likely has a first generation SATA or even still a PATA drive.
For me, that just calls to do a full format of the hard drive...
Ralf
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