Long Format Question

[Rob808]

I'm formating a 500gb External HD and it's taking forever. Is it safe to run other apps. (games, DL's, ect.) while it's formating or better to let it finish first?

DOS/WinNT has never actually formatted partitions, there is no such command.

Long format, like Chkdsk /R, does a SCSI VERIFY which USB bridge translates to IDE.
This does not transfer data, so I don't know why it would take more than an hour per platter.
As long as CPU is not significant, it is not affected by other applications.

"Rob808" <Rob808.30qbwy@no.email.invalid> wrote in message news:Rob808.30qbwy@no.email.invalid...
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> I'm formating a 500gb External HD and it's taking forever. Is it safe to
> run other apps. (games, DL's, ect.) while it's formating or better to
> let it finish first?
>
>

Eric Gisin wrote in news:13kpkkv1158re3f@corp.supernews.com
> DOS/WinNT has never actually formatted partitions, there is no such command.
>
> Long format, like Chkdsk /R, does a SCSI VERIFY which USB bridge translates
> to IDE.
> This does not transfer data, so I don't know why it would take more than an
> hour per platter.
> As long as CPU is not significant, it is not affected by other applications.

Our Timmy just jumped up for joy.

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> "Rob808" <Rob808.30qbwy@no.email.invalid> wrote in message news:Rob808.30qbwy@no.email.invalid...
> >
> > I'm formating a 500gb External HD and it's taking forever. Is it safe to
> > run other apps. (games, DL's, ect.) while it's formating or better to
> > let it finish first?