Hard drive format: NTFS: Quick format better than regular format?

[aic]

Is there any drawback to the "quick" format?

This is not General Hardware related.

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[DaTT]

Basically, a quick format doesn't really "format" your hard drive so to speak. It just erases whats on there. If you plan on starting from scratch, take the time to do regular format, that way you have a nice clean disk to work from.