RE: HDD Choices

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Whoohoo!

/me high-fives Jim and Tim on a problem resolved...

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Tim Hawes
> Sent: 09 July 2009 21:53
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] HDD Choices
>
> 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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