My Book 1tb External HD problem?

Tawy · 12-17-2008, 04:24 PM

Hey all,

I bought myself a new external hard drive today called My Book by Western Digital with a 1 terabyte capacity.

I connected it to laptop and it wasn't showing up under My Computer so I went on their site for support. There it said that the HD is set up for macs with "HFS+ Journaled formatting" and that it first had to be formatted for Windows. So I followed their guidelines** and started formatting it in NTFS as suggested by them.

Now the HD has been formatting since about 2.30 - 3 h and it is still formatted only 18%. I don't think this is normal, is it? Does this mean my HD is faulty or did I do something wrong?

Thank you very much for your help,

Tawy

** Link to guidelines:
http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc....i=&p_topview=1

**raptor_pa** · 12-17-2008, 05:19 PM

It seems a bit long, but if you did a full format it could take some time, you could abort, repartition and do a quick format.

12-17-2008, 04:24 PM	#1 (permalink)
Tawy Registered User Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 3 OS: vista	My Book 1tb External HD problem? Hey all, I bought myself a new external hard drive today called My Book by Western Digital with a 1 terabyte capacity. I connected it to laptop and it wasn't showing up under My Computer so I went on their site for support. There it said that the HD is set up for macs with "HFS+ Journaled formatting" and that it first had to be formatted for Windows. So I followed their guidelines and started formatting it in NTFS as suggested by them. Now the HD has been formatting since about 2.30 - 3 h and it is still formatted only 18%. I don't think this is normal, is it? Does this mean my HD is faulty or did I do something wrong? Thank you very much for your help, Tawy Link to guidelines: http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc....i=&p_topview=1

12-17-2008, 05:19 PM	#2 (permalink)
raptor_pa Mod Hardware Team Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Central PA Posts: 4,571 OS: XP	Re: My Book 1tb External HD problem? It seems a bit long, but if you did a full format it could take some time, you could abort, repartition and do a quick format. __________________