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¿Question #4772?
Lord_Prussian: Why does it take so long to format a hard drive?

pricero1: Have you seen how big they are now?
oscal: cause there is not short way
aardball: You're not doing it right.
anarchy: The little men spend a long time running back and forth between sectors.
pooterbug: Because the new drives are HUGE
vandemonium: It is hard to change all those 2s to 1s and 0s
Polgara: dependson the size of the harddrive
projectmatter: because Windows is DUMB!
Zarion of Arabel: the drive has to realign every single bit to a neutral position, it takes time
BuddhaPhi: The real question is: Why doesn't it take even longer?
Ardos: because you're formatting the entire thing, every byte.
cgund: does it ever!
POvidiusNaso: Stupid Microsoft! That's why!
diemacher: That's what you should be paying people to do
DHEK: Because hard drives are big and formatting is generally a slow process.
xlorp: Well, it's hard isn't it? Use an easy drive if you're impatient.
monkeyrobot: Because it´s, you know, "hard"
ZiggyZambo: 'cause of the government... bastards!
aleo09: so that it is done correctly.
KentuckyKid: Hard drives are big. You have no idea how immensely big they really are.
dgrabski: (flips through excuse calendar) Tidal stresses on the platter.
MaksimSmelchak: It's magic.
ryokowerx: Windows makes everything run slower
bigbadsteve: bill gates doesnt like you?
SisyphusX: Because hard drive magnets are deliberately not very powerful.
ZiNOS: Because if it was fast, you will do it all the time!
bwildrick: Because a full format is like reading the entire drive.
Chris Page: It's the extra time for the dry cycle after the hard drive's been scoured with a Brillo (tm) pad.
Cromaa: Because it's 400 gigs in size
ZombyDawg: Try formatting it the analog way. Much faster.
FrozenHoHos: Use the quick format function during the XP setup or find a quick format utility.
scriptorum: Lotta bytes to zero out.
Mordachai: How big of a hard drive?
JackRandom: it takes only a few seconds (using a sledgehammer)
Geese: I think you know why.
Fawkes: Your hard drive's rpms are low?
AbeLincoln: it's take me two Lost Cities and a San Juan, how long does it take you?
Loquutus: Because the little elves inside have a lot of work to do.
Sparta: Why, do you have something better to do
javelin98: They're big. The hamsters can only run so fast.
djlg: It doesn't if you just do the tables. Otherwise its got to check the setting of every bit.
CortexBomb: Because data transfer rates from HD's to the mother board are the big choke point in computing right now
chaddyboy_2000: You probably need to use drive softener on it.
Lord_Prussian: Well I didn't choose the quick option
CDRodeffer: That's relative. Why does it take so long to dig a grave by hand?
skelebone: Literally Trillions to Quadrillions of ones and zeroes.
Spielfreak: It depends on your definition of long. But honestly, I'm more concerned about short times and premature formatting.
jttm: The tiny people who live in the hard drive don't get paid overtime