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Old 05-23-2006, 02:43 AM   #1
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Whats the difference between quick format and basic format NTFS?

Always wondered.
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Old 05-23-2006, 02:47 AM   #2
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nothing you will notice
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Old 05-23-2006, 02:51 AM   #3
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nothing you will notice
True dat.

Although Win will tell you to do a the full because it's a more thourough format versus Quick. The premise is that Quick leaves remenants on HD and may not have a completely clean disk for install.

However neither's 100% so it's theory.

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Old 05-23-2006, 02:52 AM   #4
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Quick format just lays down a fresh boot record, track 0 info, and whatever the NTFS version of the FAT is called. It doesn't do the whole sector by sector formatting that the other version does.
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Old 05-23-2006, 02:54 AM   #5
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Good to know, I know that when you format, things can still be restored, just trying to get a fresh clean through
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Old 05-23-2006, 02:55 AM   #6
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Good to know, I know that when you format, things can still be restored, just trying to get a fresh clean through
Low-level format.
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Old 05-23-2006, 02:56 AM   #7
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ive wondered that as well..
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Old 05-23-2006, 02:56 AM   #8
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Good to know, I know that when you format, things can still be restored, just trying to get a fresh clean through
Even if you do a complete format, the data is still there. With a complete format the sectors are "refreshed" with new sector preamble and closing block, but the data portion is untouched, AFAIK in NTFS. You really want to use a disk "wipe" utility like Norton if you wanna flood unused space with white noise data.
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Low-level format.
Yeah if you have time to kill. Disk wipe is a lot faster
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Old 05-23-2006, 03:33 AM   #10
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Quick format just lays down a fresh boot record, track 0 info, and whatever the NTFS version of the FAT is called. It doesn't do the whole sector by sector formatting that the other version does.

agreed
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