Five minutes is a little slow don't you think Ed, does this include an OS too? Last count was 22 minutes for format and installation with full web server and firewall under Suse 7 on x86 with ext3 file format. Mac is very quick to. But windows still takes so long regardless of flash installation or regular hard installation, hopefully MS will rectify this in the future when the DOJ finishes with them. I don't touch WD drives after 6 bad drives of varying capacities over 2 years, good RMA service but still bad drives so I stick with Maxtor for IDE, SCSI, and FireWire drives. Enjoy FAT32 while you can as it is to be dropped before the next installment of windows, code named Longhorn. Then again so is NTFS. Subscription based software, and people thought WPA is a bother.
Peter Kaulback In the hour of 10:31 AM 4/14/2002 -0700, Ed Gibbs spoke this: >I use Western Digital's Data Lifeguard v 2.8 >http://support.wdc.com/download/ >to take care of my HD installations, formatting >BIOS Check, Diagnostics, and partitioning. >Of course, I ONLY use WD drives for several years, but I >suppose their program is compatible with other drives. >I can completely reformat, partition and install a used/new >40-GB with this program in less that (FIVE) minutes. . . >Impossible you say. . .well give or take a couple seconds. >This is using the FAT32 format for all partitions, even though >I run A TRIPLE BOOT, XP, 2000, and ME I still prefer the FAT32. . . > >Ed > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Peter Kaulback" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2002 8:19 AM >Subject: Re: PCWorks: "not enough memory to run scandisk" regardless > > >I forgot this in my favorites >http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/file/partSizes-c.html, is the system >actually seeing the 17 gb drive in it's entirety? You can tweak the cluster >size when formatting using the "/Z" switch, see here >http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/file/progFORMAT-c.html but I don't recommend >it's use for clients systems. > >Peter Kaulback ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
