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Received a new HDD yesterday. Performed a non-quick format on it. When I went to bed it was nearly finished, but when I woke up this morning my PC had crashed (I'm not blaming the drive here my PC is a work in progress).
Windows shows the drive online and formatted.
I'm aware there's probably no log related to the formatting.

Is it possible the format is incomplete and the drive is shown as available anyway, or would it show up as unformatted if it was even 99% done?

I guess the question is, should I format again to be safe?
 
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non quick format does not really do a full format like you think it does
it does check drive for bad sectors and then it does quick format
both formats takes literary few seconds (if you exclude that long drive scan for errors)
if its shows as formatted, then its formatted ;)
non quick format does not really do a full format like you think it does
it does check drive for bad sectors and then it does quick format
both formats takes literary few seconds (if you exclude that long drive scan for errors)
if its shows as formatted, then its formatted ;)
 
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That's what I suspected. I couldn't imagine that it doesn't perform some final task at the end that flags it as active, without which it would still appear unformatted.

Edit: Is there a better way to test the drive? Is Seatools/Data Lifeguard testing meaningful for a new drive?
 
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