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[Travis King]

What's the difference betweeen formatting the hard drive using NTFS Quick
format and NTFS format? (What's the difference between quick or full?) The
full takes like 40 minutes or so, but quick does it in a few seconds.

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Differences between a Quick format and a regular format during a "clean" installation of Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;302686&Product=winxp

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"Travis King" (e-mail address removed)
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| What's the difference betweeen formatting the hard drive using NTFS Quick
| format and NTFS format? (What's the difference between quick or full?) The
| full takes like 40 minutes or so, but quick does it in a few seconds.

 

[David H. Lipman]

Verification of data structures (sectors) rather than assuming the partition table is good
in all aspects.

Dave




| What's the difference betweeen formatting the hard drive using NTFS Quick
| format and NTFS format? (What's the difference between quick or full?) The
| full takes like 40 minutes or so, but quick does it in a few seconds.
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[Plato]

What's the difference betweeen formatting the hard drive using NTFS Quick
format and NTFS format? (What's the difference between quick or full?) The
full takes like 40 minutes or so, but quick does it in a few seconds.

Pretty much the same thing as previous versions of windows. ie a quick
format simply wipes the data, more or less, and a full format checks the
entire hard drive for bad areas. That's why it takes so much longer.