Formatting for 12 hours, only at 23%
I'm working on a guy's computer from work, and I backed up his files and wiped the hard drive out. I start formatting it, and like the title says, it's taking a long time. The proc is 3.2Ghz, and theres 512MB RAM, so the computer is not slow. Also, the hdd is 120gb.
Is the hard drive living its final hours?
Re: Formatting for 12 hours, only at 23%
Well, 12 hours isn't normal. Did you do a quick format, or just normal format? Quick takes around 10-20 minutes, and i've seen normal got to 3 hours.
But damn, 12 hours for 23%? Somethings up there. Run chkdisk if you can.
Re: Formatting for 12 hours, only at 23%
I ran chkdsk 3 days ago. it took about 6 hours to do it. It said it was ok. And no, i didn't pick the quick format option.
Re: Formatting for 12 hours, only at 23%
UPDATE!
It just hit 24%. That's right, 24%. -_-
Re: Formatting for 12 hours, only at 23%
i think you need a new harddrive...
Re: Formatting for 12 hours, only at 23%
are you doing a "low level format" or writing all 0's to every sector? that can take a while but it does seem excessive!
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Is the hard drive making any excessive noise? A clicking, loud scratching, or loud vibration?
Could have some really corrupted sectors, like if you live next to a radio station but I doubt that.
Just in case you didn't know, its a bad idea to turn the computer off in the middle of a format.
Re: Formatting for 12 hours, only at 23%
go to the mfg website and download the diagnostic tools
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Re: Formatting for 12 hours, only at 23%
Were there any symptoms of harddrive degredation before you formatted? Maybe the harddrive is the reason you're working on the computer for him to begin with?