http://www.computeradvicesite.com/3279/how-long-should-it-take-to-format-a-new-hard-drive-to-an-ntfs-partition/ Questions And Answers by Real Computer Users Thu, 15 Jul 2010 21:07:32 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.computeradvicesite.com/3279/how-long-should-it-take-to-format-a-new-hard-drive-to-an-ntfs-partition/comment-page-1/#comment-6879 Karz Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:51:54 +0000 http://www.computeradvicesite.com/3279/how-long-should-it-take-to-format-a-new-hard-drive-to-an-ntfs-partition/#comment-6879 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. 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.

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