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Failure to format external HD in Win 7
Hi guys,
I purchased an iomega ego 500gb external HD and I wanted to reformat it before using it. I selected a complete reformat (instead of a quick format) using the windows 7 utility. After over 12 hours I could barely see a green bar of progress! It was on a pace of at least week of reformat lol!
Anyway, I killed the whole process and tried it on my old inspiron 5100 with XP on it. And after 2 hours, reformat was done!
So my question is, is there something I should be doing in windows 7? I remember when I had Vista formatting rewritable CD would always fail (but I would get an error message as opposed to never ending format). Any input would be great!
Thanks!