-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Formatting External HDD
- From: "Sandy" <sandy.rick@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 12:32:50 -0400
Thanks for the info on how you turn your external on/off..........I
appreciated that.
Well when I read this last night was getting too late for me and I crashed,
lol.
Ok, this morning I turned on the external and my system and started the scan
right away and that was 10:51 am. Before the I started the scan it showed
the drive in windows explorer as having 500 MB and 111GB free. It did NOT
ask me about running anything on the next reboot.......just immediately went
right into the scan.
And it's now 12:30 and it only has 2 green boxes in the progress bar for
Phase 1. So we're going on 2 hrs and it's barely done phase 1.
Seems it's not at all working like you thought it would. I'll keep it
running, but I need to do email and other stuff so i hope it's ok to do
that..........but maybe that another big no no????
Sandy in Fla.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gman" <gman.pctt@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2008 9:14 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Formatting External HDD
> Destroying stuff is sometimes the best way to learn. It's heck on the
> device in question, but you'll never forget the lesson. ;)
>
> If you haven't already done so, save your work, close all open apps and
> reboot. When the system comes back up, turn on the external and let's see
> if any damage has been done to it. If you can access it through Windows
> Explorer, do the Right click, Properties and set up CHKDSK again, but make
> sure that the drive is actually showing in the right pane of Explorer.
> This
> will force it to ask you if you want to run the scan on the next reboot.
> After clicking Yes to that question, go ahead and reboot a second time and
> let the utility do its thing. Since there aren't many files on the drive,
> it shouldn't take more than about a half hour to complete. When it's
> finished, it'll complete the bootup back into Windows and you can test it
> again. Hopefully, the full scan will repair whatever has been holding up
> the works all this time.
>
> Incidentally, I always turn on my external before I boot up my system. I
> then shut down the system before turning off the external. Many folks
> just
> leave the external on all the time, even when the system is off, but I
> believe that's a waste of electricity and just reduces the life of the
> external drive and the enclosure's electronics.
>
> Peace,
> Gman
>
> "The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask"
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sandy" <sandy.rick@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: "PcTechTalk" <PcTechTalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2008 8:39 PM
> Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Formatting External HDD
>
>
>> Well crap! I actually didn't know you could reboot with an external
>> still
>> on......I thought you had to turn them off..........uh oh :-(( I knew
>> the
>> usb
>> cable could stay in, but..........oh well........I sure as heck know now
>> and
>> feel embarrassed that I didn't know it before.
>>
>> Sandy in Fla.
>
>
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