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Data recovery and disk repair questions and discussions related to old-fashioned SATA, SAS, SCSI, IDE, MFM hard drives - any type of storage device that has moving parts
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Huge HD low level format

June 28th, 2010, 12:09

Wow, 48 hours for a low level format. Annoying. Mid you, it's a Samsung 500 gb HD. and it had bad sectors. But, nevertheless, that's ridiculous.

Re: Huge HD low level format

June 28th, 2010, 12:23

On a good drive that would take about 1-2 hours. Yours is clearly having problems

Re: Huge HD low level format

June 28th, 2010, 17:07

After that, are the bads still there? I think there's something else... And a very different procedure is needed to fix such drive.
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