On Tuesday, August 31, 2004, at 07:38 PM, David wrote:
How long should a low level format of a 160 Gig hard ATA Seagate drive take?
My 6500 has been at it for 13 hours. The drive is suspect.
Thanks, David
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What are you using to format it? Why not stop and restart and see if the Apple
Utility notices it as a drive in need of initializing?
If so, it'll do that so you can have it mounted and then test it with Norton.
Jeff G
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