[Freedos-user] formatting FAT32 hard disk partitions

2004-05-11 Thread Kurt Albershardt
Booted from the beta9rc5 disk image, trying to format a hard drive using FAT32. fdisk has no problems deleting old linux and NT partitions and creating a new single partition spanning the entire 40 gB drive, but format seems rather broken--it just hangs at zero percent when doing a 'format c: /u'

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: formatting FAT32 hard disk partitions

2004-05-11 Thread Kurt Albershardt
--On Wednesday, May 12, 2004 12:15 AM +0200 Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, you think that FORMAT C: /U on a 40 GB partition would hang? No, but you selected /U which means wiping the entire 40 GB and doing a surface scan for it! That's the desired behavior in this case. We're assuming th

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: formatting FAT32 hard disk partitions

2004-05-13 Thread Kurt Albershardt
--On Thursday, May 13, 2004 11:30 AM +0800 Johnson Lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 11 May 2004 15:28:18 -0700, Kurt wrote: Should the progress indicator show anything after 5-10 minutes? How long should I expect for a 40G or 80G volume? Yes, the percentage did change, depends on what kin

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: Re: formatting FAT32 hard disk partitions

2004-05-13 Thread Kurt Albershardt
--On Thursday, May 13, 2004 11:07 PM +0200 Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Windows FORMAT only writes to the disk (wiping it) and relies on the BIOS to notice and report write errors. FreeDOS FORMAT wipes a small part of the disk, then checks if it worked, wipes the next part, and so on. You c