Hard Drive says formatting - doesn't show percentage completed


  1. Posts : 55
    Windows 7 Ultimate
       #1

    Hard Drive says formatting - doesn't show percentage completed


    I'm formatting a hardware raid5 drive using the drive management mmc snap-in, and it's taking forever. What is making matters worse is that it doesn't show the percentage completed, it just says "ntfs, formatting" on the screen.

    Is there a command line or other tool to show me how far along the formatting is as a percentage? like 2% complete, 50% complete, and so on.
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  2. Posts : 12,012
    Windows 7 Home Premium SP1, 64-bit
       #2

    Not that I know of, but if you are doing a so called "full format", it can take 3 hours or so on a 1 TB drive, if I recall correctly.
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  3. Posts : 55
    Windows 7 Ultimate
    Thread Starter
       #3

    It is taking forever on 2TB , I started it 28hours ago. Grrr.
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  4. Posts : 1,533
    Windows 7 Professional x64 Service Pack 1
       #4

    jagooch said:
    It is taking forever on 2TB , I started it 28hours ago. Grrr.
    Just let it run. It shouldn't take mre than a day at this point. If it runs too long, it may be an indication of a bad hard drive.
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  5. Posts : 10,796
    Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bits 7601 Multiprocessor Free Service Pack 1
       #5

    software raid5 or hardware raid5?
    Do you see disk lights flashing all the time, so you know know there's a lot of activity?
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  6. Posts : 55
    Windows 7 Ultimate
    Thread Starter
       #6

    It finally finished while I was asleep. I wonder why it didn't give me any status updates? Anyways, I'm copying about 1TB to it now, it should finish while I'm at work.

    PS the system is an old Athlon XP on Abit Kr7 motherboard.
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