[External Hard Drive] Quick Format Total Time?

[Aung Kaung Hein]

I'm recently running a quick format on my 500GB external hard drive and it has been formatting around 4 hours.

My Hard drive may have bad sectors and some errors. However, I think quick format shouldn't take for so long.
May I know how long does it take normally to perform a quick format?

Or can you please give any suggestions for me? Thanks.

 

[nhasian]

sounds like you need to replace your drive.

 

[Paperdoc]

On a trouble-free 500 GB HDD, I would expect a "Quick Format" to take less than 15 minutes - quite possibly more like 5. You have a problem that needs diagnosis.