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Old 29th May, 2003, 08:26 AM
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Question Whats the diff bet a normal reformat and a quick format???
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The difference between a normal format and a quick format?

A normal format usually (but not always) goes through and ensures that the media is good. This usually involves writing data to each sector.

A quick format just rewrites a few data structures (like FAT, root directory, MFT table etc) on the disk. This makes it look empty, but doesn't actually delete any of the contents of the disk.

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Quick only wipes beginning of each cluster which is why its quicker
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Oh i see.... Thanks guys
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Thats fine and all, but with all these recent nForce driver issues, ive been reformatting quite a bit - should I worry about doing a full format, or just do the quick-format and save myself an hour?
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A quick reformat should work fine for you me think
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I was hoping for that response. As long as I know the drives work, I dont think doing a complete format is really doing me any added good.
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If you can get a second hard drive, you'll save MEGA amounts of time by Ghosting your Drive.
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Well I have two 80G WDSE drives in RAID 0 right now. Couldnt I just make a ghost image of my C: partition and save it on my Data drive (or just make a new partition Z:Ghost)? Or does it actually have to be a physically seperate drive? By the way, once I have the ghost image on another drive, how do I perform a re-image onto my C: partition?
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