Looking for decent Hard Driver formatter

[Lino]

So this 250GB SATA drive that I have in an external case. Has a few little problems, which I am assuming are due to the fact it is a partition error.

I want to reformat the drive, not using Windows tools. As they are terrible slow. Any ideas?

 

[LFX]

slow???

theres an option for quick format, takes less than a minute, if not then theres some other issue

 

[PostmanPot]

So this 250GB SATA drive that I have in an external case. Has a few little problems, which I am assuming are due to the fact it is a partition error.

I want to reformat the drive, not using Windows tools. As they are terrible slow. Any ideas?

If you're into Linux, how about GParted? Or are you only looking for Windows programs? In that case, Partition Magic works a charm.

 

[Lino]

If you're into Linux, how about GParted? Or are you only looking for Windows programs? In that case, Partition Magic works a charm.

Why on earth didn't I think of Gparted. Thank you for reminding me that program exists.

@Lord Fubar

Correct there is a quick format but it is not fixing the problem. Hence need for a full proper format.

 

[LFX]

"other issue" part confirmed. lol

 

[Grimspoon]

Partition Magic

 

[Lino]

Right, so I can copy to the hard drive, and run stuff from it fine with no problems. However when I attempt to copy back, I get Cyclic Redundancy Errors, wtf