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 their guidelines:
http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc...nBfc2VhcmNoX3RleHQ9MTU1MA**&p_li=&p_topview=1
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 their guidelines:
http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc...nBfc2VhcmNoX3RleHQ9MTU1MA**&p_li=&p_topview=1
