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How Long Should It Take To Format A New Hard Drive To An Ntfs Partition?

I recently bought a new hard drive to replace a failed one. I ran BIOS to detect the drive and Primary was listed as 0. I attempted to run a recovery with xp recovery discs and it prompted a function that partitioned the new hard drive though I’m not sure if it is working correctly. All it has done is pop up the Compaq screen with a red bar floating across and it has done this for about an hour. How long should this take?

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This entry was posted on Monday, February 8th, 2010 at 4:54 am and is filed under Computers. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

One Response to “How Long Should It Take To Format A New Hard Drive To An Ntfs Partition?”

  1. Quick format takes a few minutes. Normal format may take 10 to 20 minutes depending on size of hard drive.
    Your new drive should be properly detected/recognized in BIOS in order to work properly. Check its connection/installation again. Also, your recovery discs might be dependent on some Compaq files in a recovery partition on the old hard drive that is why it won’t work on an empty/new drive.