Timeline for Should I choose 'Format' or 'Format (Quick)' when installing Windows XP?
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| Feb 17, 2011 at 20:06 | comment | added | Joel Coehoorn | In other words, there's no point to spending extra time scanning for bad sectors at format time, because the OS has to do that on reads/writes anyway. You don't save any work later, and you get nothing now because even if it finds a bunch of bad sectors you didn't already know about it will still just mark them bad and move on. | |
| Jul 15, 2009 at 20:47 | vote | accept | Jeffrey | ||
| Jul 15, 2009 at 13:32 | comment | added | Lasse V. Karlsen | but then, I would never use a disk I knew to be faulty for a fresh installation, so .... | |
| Jul 15, 2009 at 13:31 | history | answered | Lasse V. Karlsen | CC BY-SA 2.5 |