From: home@away.com   
      
   On Wed, 5 Nov 2003 18:53:17 +0000 (UTC), "steve marchant"   
    wrote:   
      
   >I've done this a few times now on my standby pc, and each time it takes   
   >nearly an hour. The drive is 1 gig.  It coasts merrily along displaying the   
   >percentage   
   > progress, until it stops and announces something like, "searching for   
   >allocation unit..", and a number, eg. 31250. It sticks there for ages before   
   >moving on, and then stopping again as above for ages, etc., until it finally   
   >completes the format. My other pc formats much quicker, without the searches   
   >for "allocation unit number...". Anybody know the reason for these long   
   >pauses, and if anything can be done to speed up the format?   
   >steve   
   >   
   Why do you (re) format often?  What is the problem that causes you to   
   reformat?  The slow format suggest sthere is a problem with the   
   harddrive and maybe you are getting errors during a read/write.  Run   
   SCANDISK or similar utility to check the drive.  If errors persist,   
   suggest you replace the drive.   
      
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