Sandra,

My experience is that formatting leaves very little of the processor readily available for other programs.

You could boot up your computer using a Linux LiveCD (say, Ubuntu) and then use the disk partitioning program to format the hard drive to NTFS. This is what I did with my recent 1 TB drive. It only takes about 5 - 10 mins. If you're interested, private message me and I'll outline the procedure I used.

I'm not sure that this procedure detects and decommisions bad sectors but I have used it on many hard drives over the last couple of years and have not had any problems.

Regards,
Noel

Last edited by Noel96; 12/17/09 06:21 AM.

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