new hard drive slow to format

[Guest]

Hi,
I got a new 250GB hard drive today, and used computer managment to set up a single primary partition, then started to format (NTFS file system).

That was over an hour ago and the counter has just clicked over to "1 percent completed" - I know it's a big drive, but at this rate the format will take five days to complete! Any clue what's going on here?

Kevin

 

[Yves Leclerc]

Internal or External???

Hi,
I got a new 250GB hard drive today, and used computer managment to set up

a single primary partition, then started to format (NTFS file system).

That was over an hour ago and the counter has just clicked over to "1

percent completed" - I know it's a big drive, but at this rate the format
will take five days to complete! Any clue what's going on here?

 

[Jim Macklin]

Never thought about that, hope he isn't external with only
USB 1.1


message | Internal or External???
|
message
| | > Hi,
| > I got a new 250GB hard drive today, and used computer
managment to set up
| a single primary partition, then started to format (NTFS
file system).
| >
| > That was over an hour ago and the counter has just
clicked over to "1
| percent completed" - I know it's a big drive, but at
this rate the format
| will take five days to complete! Any clue what's going on
here?
| >
| > Kevin
|
|

 

[Guest]

it's an internal drive - ide slave