Formatting an External Drive and Drive Letters

[juneau]

16hours?!?!?!?! My 1tb Green drives took about 4 hours doing a full format.

[{CLR} ObiTroy]

... just to keep some hipster from crying into his latte because the drive doesn't "Just Work".

LMAO!

[Dead...Again]

16hours?!?!?!?! My 1tb Green drives took about 4 hours doing a full format.

They weren't external. His drive was probably configured for quick removal (the default), which would make the format go much slower.

[Dead...Again]

I've never had to try cancelling a drive format other than a quick format. Usually I use convert to convert a fat to ntfs.

After doing some checking I recommend you let it run it's course. I would not take the risk unless you are very savvy on these sort of things and can take the drive out of the ext. case if something goes wrong.

I guess it's just going to take a long time for it to complete. Sorry!

Is convert an external application? I cannot find the option under Disk Management. Also, does it destroy the data on the disk?

[mapes]

I realize that, but frankly don't care about Mac

I don't really care for NTFS either since most likely I'll be formating it ext3. The question is why are they even formated at all?

[Qicmee]

Convert.exe utility is explained here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314097