How long does it take to format a 120GB Hard Drive ?

[sean2002]

I have a Western Digital 1200JB on it's way and I'm wondering how long it will take to format it in 1 big partition ?

 

[GoSharks]

if you do a full format using ntfs, i would think about an hour

 

[BD231]

If it's a brand new HD with nothing on it you should just quick format, shouldn't take more than 2 or 3 min.

 

[Nocturnal]

nah not an hour, maybe 30 minutes. my 60 gig drive takes rougly 15 minutes to 20 minutes or so. so yeah 30-40 mins probably.

 

[Wolfsraider]

<< If it's a brand new HD with nothing on it you should just quick format, shouldn't take more than 2 or 3 min. >>



exactly using the wd floppy😉

 

[Ausm]

In my experience a full format takes 45 minutes

Ausm

 

[Oyeve]

If you format in Windows NT (any version) it should be only a couple if minutes. In real DOS it would take probably an hour (I think).

 

[kerpaul]

Did a full NTFS format on mine the other day it took 45 minutes.

 

[MisterDuck]

Yeah....45 min to do mine, maybe a bit longer. It took some time.

 

[sean2002]

Cool, thanks.

 

[BillClo]

Just don't choose the write zeros to disk, as I had to do once. Took 4 hours for a 40gb drive, so you can imagine how long it'd take on a 100-120gb drive...

 

[ChrisIsBored]

Ummm... why would you want to zero fill a brand new drive? There's no data on there to erase. Just do a quick format and be done with it in less than 2 minutes.