Re: HDD Choices

[Tim Hawes <timsyahoo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jim, Phil,

Yes, that's exactly what I needed to do - my backup is progressing
nicely now :-)
Thanks very much for the pointer.

Cheers,

Tim.


On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Phil Harris<phil@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Wouldn't you just use "Manage" -> "Disk
Management" (right-click on "My
> Computer") to do a high level (OS level) format on the new drive?
If you do
> a "Quick Format" (so it just writes the file allocation
tables etc. rather
> than writing to each block on the drive) then it should only take
seconds to
> do.
>
> You should never have to low level format a drive nowadays...
>
> Phil


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