Formatting two partitions at once

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I have had this 3TB Seagate barracuda since July 2012, since then I have had no problems with it up until now, suddenly Dskchk wanted to run on the drive after I attempted to defrag it, after the defrag was complete it was still on 1% fragmented ,outside of Windows, on boot up it prompted me to do ChkDsk so I did but after a few seconds it came up with the error "Error in writing the output log" it kept repeating this error after about 5 minutes I gave up and was forced to shut down the pc because it wasn't doing anything, I booted to windows to find one of the partitions had suddenly gone from 760GB used to the full 1.32TB used, i belive DskChk had done this, I did some Google searches for fixes, I couldn't find any way to access this what I think to be a "500gb log" but to no avail, the partition had also lost it's drive letter and it's bar to show how full it was, the only information was "NTFS" the properties menu showed it was full, i tried showing all hidded system files etc and looked for the "WinInit" and "Chkdsk" events on event veiwer and they where nowhere to be seen, so I decided to copy all the actual data from the drives partitions to another drive, so I got everything back minus a few currupt images one single folder of 30 corrupt songs.

Now I left the drive doing a full reformat overnight, BUT I did two 1397.20 GB partitions at the same time, does this mean the partitions will be scattered in tiny blocks across the HDD, if so is this bad?

it's taken a full 5 and a half hours to do a full length format on two 1397.20GB partitions, both simultaneously, if this is going to cause like broken up data will I delete the partitions and do one at a time or am I fine to use the drive again now?

Wrote this out bad sorry :( just tried to get as much info as I could in! as of posting I'll be away for 3 hours, then I can respond.
 
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Go back to Disk Mgmt. and assign a drive letter to it. Right click, select "Change Drive Letter and Paths".

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Well, dammit! whilst it was on 99% formatted on both partitions it switched to 100%, so i thought windows was just rounding 99.5 upwards, so i went into the shower and came back 25 minutes later to BSOD, the drive is now showing in diskmanagement as online and two healthy partitions and in device manager but not computer :( what's wrong?
 


Go back to Disk Mgmt. and assign a drive letter to it. Right click, select "Change Drive Letter and Paths".

Yogi

 
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It's quite funny I realised this instantly after like 2 mins after being back on windows, but thanks anyway :)
I think the bluescreen after the format complete made it forget the letters I gave the partitions, because it didn't save them or something (I entered drive letters on the format interface when I started formatting)