I have over 100 computers that I need to format. Do you have an idea to complete the transaction as quickly as possible? (The best of them all at once). For information computer farm is a mix between windows 98, 2000 and XP.
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Windows – How to format few computer at the same time
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Basically, quick format doesn't do a scan of the disk to check for bad sectors.
Here's a MS article on the topic.
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Operating system is irrelevant here as it will need to be done at boot or outside from it, if you are talking about formatting the main hard drive.
I would recommend Darik's Boot and Nuke and use it on a USB drive, simply plop it in a machine and start, then move on to the next.
Alternatively, if you don't mind a bit of setup and these machines are networked, you can look at deploying Boot and Nuke to a PXE server and use TFTPD32 on Windows or any PXE server on Linux then you will be able to launch Dban across the network - just be careful that this is separated or other machines are not able to boot from it!