Re: partitioning and use thereof
Grant Taylor <[email protected]> Sun, 10 Oct 2021 10:38:27 -0600
| Newsgroups | alt.computer |
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| Organization | TNet Consulting |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 10/10/21 2:36 AM, Robert Baer wrote: > ..seems to want to work with format N: but slow as all heck. Did you let the slow format finish? Or did you stop it? > So tried format N: /q and got the following messages: > Creating file system structures. > The first NTFS boot sector is unreadabe. > All NTFS boot sectors are unwriteable. Cannot continue. > Format failed. If you stopped the slow / long format, that error would be unsurprising to me. > So, maybe the SLOW way or NO WAY. My understanding is that the quick / short format will only run if there is an existing file system (maybe of the same type). Something that doesn't exist if you stopped the slow / long format before it finished. -- Grant. . . . unix || die