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prosportal

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    Trouble formatting
    « on: October 31, 2011, 12:19:50 PM »
    Working on a Toshiba laptop that came stock with Vista basic. I'm trying to format the thing, but it's at 1% after an hour of formatting. What could be causing this?
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    Salmon Trout

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    Re: Trouble formatting
    « Reply #1 on: October 31, 2011, 12:37:12 PM »
    Disk on the fritz, probably. How are you doing the format? Have you checked the hdd data and power cables?

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      Re: Trouble formatting
      « Reply #2 on: October 31, 2011, 12:56:02 PM »
      Yeah, I was thinking there was a bad sector on the HDD so I was doing a full format, but it seemed to format okay using quick format so I guess everything is okay.   :-\
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      Allan

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      Re: Trouble formatting
      « Reply #3 on: October 31, 2011, 12:58:27 PM »
      Not necessarily. A full format runs chkdsk /r before formatting. From what you've said, I think you should run chkdsk /r before going any further.
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        Re: Trouble formatting
        « Reply #4 on: November 06, 2011, 10:09:29 AM »
        I would agree, a quick format won’t tell you if the HDD has any bad sectors.  I would recommend using a disk verifying utility like Spinrite (www.grc.com).  It runs around $50.00 but it does a great job identify and fixing bad sectors.  The utility takes about a day depending on the size of the hhd to run and repair but once done, you should be able to get the whole disk back.  Then you can run a full format and it should be ready for reuse.

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        Re: Trouble formatting
        « Reply #5 on: November 06, 2011, 11:31:29 AM »
        Quote from: kenf916 on November 06, 2011, 10:09:29 AM
        I would agree, a quick format won’t tell you if the HDD has any bad sectors.  I would recommend using a disk verifying utility like Spinrite (www.grc.com).  It runs around $50.00 but it does a great job identify and fixing bad sectors.  The utility takes about a day depending on the size of the hhd to run and repair but once done, you should be able to get the whole disk back.  Then you can run a full format and it should be ready for reuse.

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        Ken. I respectfully disagree with you. At one time SpinRite was a great too. Now for under $100 you can make a better investment buying a another HDD to verify the problem is in the drive and not the motherboard or anything other that the HDD. A good refurbished HDD will do.
        a aberration in drive geometry.  Tine preferred method of hardware diagnostic is by substitution. Not paid software diagnostics.The free stuff from the drive makers are good enough.
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