Boomyal
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Installed a new 40GB HD in my Firewire enclosure. Through 'disk management' I named it, partitioned it and tried to format it with out using the 'quick format' option. It tried to do this several times and it was taking forever. The first time it seemed to stall at 24%. The last time I let it attemp all night and this morning it was 82%. I let it go a little bit longer and it got up to 83%.
Obviously something was amiss. I cancelled the format, repartitioned the drive and formatted using the 'quick format' option. In a blink of the eye it was done. I copied a bunch of stuff to it and it seems to be working perfectly.
What gives?
Obviously something was amiss. I cancelled the format, repartitioned the drive and formatted using the 'quick format' option. In a blink of the eye it was done. I copied a bunch of stuff to it and it seems to be working perfectly.
What gives?