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<blockquote data-quote="Peter2" data-source="post: 693467" data-attributes="member: 24945">Hi guys,I'm planning to move my data from an old pc that I installed linux on to a second drive in my HTPC.For this, I bought a Samsung F4 2TB drive and an external enclosure that will hold the old data drive for backup.To format the drive I have put it in the enclosure and connected it through USB to my desktop and it is formatting now.I have searched for information on this but cannot find a clear answer so I give a try here.The drive is formatting (full format) with 4k sectors and until now, it has only done 18% in about 3 hours time.My HTPC is currently configured in dual boot xp/w7 because I'm evaluating the difference/advantage of switching to w7.1) is it normal that this takes so long and would there be any difference if the drive was connected through (e)SATA for this?2) what about accessing the data from within Xp?3) does any of you have experience with writing to an NTFS drive on linux?TIA!P²</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Peter2, post: 693467, member: 24945"] Hi guys, I'm planning to move my data from an old pc that I installed linux on to a second drive in my HTPC. For this, I bought a Samsung F4 2TB drive and an external enclosure that will hold the old data drive for backup. To format the drive I have put it in the enclosure and connected it through USB to my desktop and it is formatting now. I have searched for information on this but cannot find a clear answer so I give a try here. The drive is formatting (full format) with 4k sectors and until now, it has only done 18% in about 3 hours time. My HTPC is currently configured in dual boot xp/w7 because I'm evaluating the difference/advantage of switching to w7. 1) is it normal that this takes so long and would there be any difference if the drive was connected through (e)SATA for this? 2) what about accessing the data from within Xp? 3) does any of you have experience with writing to an NTFS drive on linux? TIA! P² [/QUOTE]

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