From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2023-02-05 21:57, vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com wrote:   
   > I have a laptop with no OS.. well I messed it up   
   >   
   > I tried to reformat with GParted, but it was supsiciously fast.  Formatting   
   > should take forever, right?   
      
   No.   
      
   It is supposed to be very fast nowdays.   
      
   You maybe thinking of formatting floppies back then. That is no longer   
   needed on a modern hard disk. The sectors already exist. The format   
   program only has to (for example, for a FAT12/16/32) write the first   
   sector, then an empty FAT table of the appropriate size, then a root   
   directory table, and done. It doesn't bother checking sectors for   
   defects, nor erasing them of previous content. They are marked as empty   
   in the FAT, that's all.   
      
   Notice that erasing sectors on a thumbdrive or an SSD disk kill lives.   
      
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   Cheers, Carlos.   
      
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