-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Formatting External HDD

Sandy,
    I probably should have mentioned that.  You should always reboot before 
doing any system maintenance.

Peace,
Gman

"The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask"


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sandy" <sandy.rick@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2008 10:29 AM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Formatting External HDD


> ok, the results.  i marked both options like your siad, clicked ok and it
> started immediately but at 11 pm
> had made very little progress so I turned off my cable modem, printer (all
> unnecessaries) and let it run all night.
> got up and it showed phase 2 (faded out) but no little green boxes at all
> were inthe progress bar and I decided to
> reconnect to the net and send you a message when suddenly after turning 
> the
> modem back on, the green
> boxes ery quickly went all the way across the progress bar and a window
> popped up as follows:
>
> Checking Disk WS External (G:):
>
> Windows was unable to complete the disk check.
>
> Maybe I should reboot at some point and try this all again?
>
> Sandy in Fla 


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