-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Formatting External HDD

And I SHOULD know that, but am just feeling so overwhelmed by a new pc and 
all............ok.........gonna reboot now and try again.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gman" <gman.pctt@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2008 3:33 PM
Subject: -=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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