Why does formatting take so long
My hard drive is only 320 gigabytes and it's taken 20 minutes and it is only at 22%
at this rate installation will take like 3 hours
at this rate installation will take like 3 hours
Why does formatting take so long
I never stayed awake to format. I always do it at night when I go to sleep.
Currently at 49%, 
Originally Posted by Auxilium
Currently at 49%,
Lol your Chinese and have windows xp. 
Originally Posted by Color
Lol your Chinese and have windows xp.
Originally Posted by Color
Lol your Chinese and have windows xp.
Originally Posted by Auxilium
Do you know the country that has a flag that is white with a red circle in it?
７０％！！！！！！！
Originally Posted by Auxilium
７０％！！！！！！！
Originally Posted by InCognito
rub a magnet on your hard drive.. it will help fasten the reformat
Originally Posted by Auxilium
No, I'll just have to rewrite the file system
Originally Posted by Auxilium
My hard drive is only 320 gigabytes and it's taken 20 minutes and it is only at 22%
at this rate installation will take like 3 hours
at this rate installation will take like 3 hours
If its a fast format, it will just mark all the sectors as free, which is supposed to be very quick :S
Originally Posted by radnomguywfq3
What kind of format is it?
If its a fast format, it will just mark all the sectors as free, which is supposed to be very quick :S
If its a fast format, it will just mark all the sectors as free, which is supposed to be very quick :S
I'm always used to not using the quick option, but I never remember it being this slow 
I guess I learned not to do a full format with Windows XP sp3 again
it's already at 86% yayyy
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Finally files are being copied over
