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hard drive enclosure formating
I have a XPS computer with my old laptop hard drive in an enclosure. I retrieved the information off it. When I try to format the hard drive it takes a long time. it has been running for six hours without showing much progress. Is this normal? I right clicked the hard drive in my computer and hit format.
p. IV 3.4 ghz with HT
60 gig 5400 rpm hard drive
512 mb ram
the external hard drive is from an older toshiba computer with 20 gigs of space.
- Yes it is 2.0 compliant, and I did the check for bad sectors, it came up clean. Since then i ran the format on the quick setting and it worked quickly. Now i just need to know if i should partition it, and what the advantages of doing it are. I am just going to use it to store extra info or music.
aliix
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Posted June 2nd, 2004 05:00