Darren wrote:
Rusty Shackelford wrote:
hdsc is trying to format it now
should it take forever? there is no progress bar and it has been working about 15 mins. i'm not sure if it is hung or not
Yes it will take some time, disturbing it may also damage the drive.
Partioning the drive would have wrote a new partion table so the mac would have asked if you wish to initalize rather than format which is much quicker. You needed a formatting tool to do this.
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