I bought a 320GB HDD and case. I format it in disk management. It took me more than an hour to format.
Any way to format it faster?

use quick format

Hi,

There is any option for quick format, its take only few minute.

Thanks, any diffrent using quick format?

press F1 while you are in Disk Management console. Read about formatting partition using Disk Management console in that Windows Help documentation...

quick format only delete the index table, so if your hdd is not new, it will still contain old files...

Thanks.

Why when during installing Vista. It took only seconds to format?

because it just quick format...

that is quicke format

Thanks n done.