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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
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Currently at 49%,
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Doesnt sound very long
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Lol your Chinese and have windows xp.
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Do you know the country that has a flag that is white with a red circle in it? Originally Posted by Ederan
Lol your Chinese and have windows xp.
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Wrong country Originally Posted by Ederan
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lol fail Japanese xD Originally Posted by Virtual Void
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rub a magnet on your hard drive.. it will help fasten the reformat Originally Posted by Virtual Void
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No, I'll just have to rewrite the file system Originally Posted by InCognito
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What kind of format is it? Originally Posted by Virtual Void
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
If its a fast format, it will just mark all the sectors as free, which is supposed to be very quick :S
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Alright, don't believe me then boo bear. Originally Posted by Virtual Void
No, I'll just have to rewrite the file system
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I realized this afterwards Originally Posted by Jetamay
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
---------- Post added at 11:19 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:06 PM ----------
Finally files are being copied over
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