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How long time to format 3Tbyte HDD (not quick format)? Dead HDD?
Is my HDD dead? Or can someone tell me how long time it will take to format a 3Tbyte HDD with one big partition?
Right now it is trying to format via an elevated prompt and DISKPART. After about 9 minutes it says it is 1% finished .. ie it will take about 900 minutes to format this drive !! Is this really normal?
I have never had any troubble with it before, but the SMART numbers indicates that I must replace it soon, so I would put som movies on it, and then leave it. I guess it can't be more broken from just sitting still without power or connection ... (Is this true?)