Formatting drive

2014-09-27 Thread The Believer
When I formatted a 500gig drive, I think I used the options under the Partition tab and set seceuriy to 100%. It did not take long to format. Now am trying to format a new WD Passport 1t drive using the same options. Its going to take 17 hours?!? Before I start it over again, I

Re: Formatting drive

2014-09-27 Thread Rachel Feinberg
there should be an erase tab when you select the drive from the table present disk utility application in the utilities folder. Choosing this will allow you to format it and you have several options you can choose from the popup menu. On 9/27/2014 9:58 AM, The Believer wrote: When I formatted

Re: Formatting drive

2014-09-27 Thread The Believer
I think I did select the default zero% last time. So I did the same here and that was it. Now Time Machine is happy. The Believer. . . . . . what if it were true? ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 9/27/2014 10:19 AM, Rachel Feinberg wrote: there should be an erase tab when you select the