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Win XP and formatting

John

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Has anyone tried the quick NTFS format in Win XP? I assume it is like adding the /q switch....

Any benefit of doing a normal slow NTFS format vs. a quick one?
 

iamshady

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Is the HDD you're formatting already in NTFS? I did Quick NTFS format on my Windows 2000 NTFS partition when I installed XP and so far so good :)