On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 01:35:29 +00, Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ wrote:
> Hi List,
> I made a new partition on my HD and before taking this into
> service one has to format it.
> The partition is 466Mb and after giving "FORMAT E:"
> the computer started by first repairing the clusters.
> I never had any computer do this.
> If I am rightly informed a cluster is 512 bytes or 0.512Kb
> The computer or HD is doing about 6000 clusters/hour so for 466Mb it
> will take about 150 hours = 6 days :-( :-(
> Does this sound familiar to any one???
> Regards, Bastiaan
> Count is now 47,000 cluster in 7:30 hours.
Something is very wrong.
A 466MB partition shold not take more than 15 minutes to format.
I just happen to have an empty partition of about that size
that I can test this on.
BRB
WOW !!! Waa I ever wrong on THAT time estimate.
---- formtest.bat ---
chkdsk h:\>l:\ftest-1.txt
format /a /u /x /v:formattest1 h:
chkdsk h:\>l:\ftest-2.txt
dir l:\>l:\ftest-3.txt
copy l:\ftest-1.txt + l:\ftest-2.txt + l:\ftest-3.txt l:\ftest-4.txt
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---- the resulting ftest-4.txt ----
WARNING: Redirecting CHKDSK output to a file
on the same drive that is being checked, can result
in CHKDSK reporting additional errors.
Volume in drive H: does not have a label
Volume Serial Number is 1BD5-142D
468,336,640 bytes total disk space.
468,336,640 bytes available on disk.
8,192 bytes in allocation unit.
57,170 total allocation units on disk.
57,170 available allocation units on disk.
655,360 total bytes of memory.
643,728 total bytes of free memory.
643,248 bytes in largest free memory block.
Unable to locate h:\.WARNING: Redirecting CHKDSK output to a file
on the same drive that is being checked, can result
in CHKDSK reporting additional errors.
Volume FORMATTEST1 created Jul-30-2003 20:08
Volume Serial Number is 1BDB-3277
468,336,640 bytes total disk space.
468,336,640 bytes available on disk.
8,192 bytes in allocation unit.
57,170 total allocation units on disk.
57,170 available allocation units on disk.
655,360 total bytes of memory.
643,728 total bytes of free memory.
643,248 bytes in largest free memory block.
Unable to locate h:\.
Volume in drive L is MS-RAMDRIVE
Directory of L:\
COMMAND COM 55077 2-27-97 7:01a
TEMP <DIR> 7-30-03 7:19p
ARACHNE <DIR> 7-30-03 7:19p
FORMTEST BAT 183 7-30-03 8:06p
FTEST-1 TXT 598 7-30-03 8:06p
FTEST-2 TXT 602 7-30-03 8:08p
FTEST-3 TXT 0 7-30-03 8:08p
7 File(s) 60601344 bytes free
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As you can see.... 2 minutes was all it took.
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