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'
--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
--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
--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
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