Well, I was pretty tired when I sent that (these 20 hour days must be getting to me lol). I saw your 500MB statement as 500GB. Oh well, maybe it won't take too long when running before the reboot. ;-) Peace, Gman "The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask" ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sandy" <sandy.rick@xxxxxxxxx> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, September 01, 2008 5:44 PM Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Formatting External HDD > lolololololololololol. > > ok, I've been busy cleaning and left it alone and at 5:35 p.m it's only > done > about 5 little boxes on the progress bar. > > quick question? I clicked on the question mark and put it on each option, > since you've told me to choose both and for the 2nd one, it said that > there > is no need to mark the first one because the 2nd one does both. so do i > mark both of them or not? > > sorry bout the misunderstanding, but i WAS seeing the drive in windows > explorer on the right hand side...........just not the contents of it, > lololol. > > and man do I WISH it was a 500 gb harddrive..........I'd be in heaven. > not > sure where you thought you saw me say that...............it's still the > 120 > gig and there's 500 mb of info on it with 111 gig > free................lololol..........seems like we're having a lot of > misunderstandings, hahahahaha. > > right now i'm going to reboot, cause it won't let me stop the > scan............not by clicking cancel, not by hitting any red x's, not by > ctrl, alt, delete.......or anything.......so I'm leaving it on, just > rebooting and i will follow your instructions exactly..........I wrote it > all down. ;-) > > Sandy in Fla > (getting flustered with this external drive) --------------------------------------------------------------- Please remember to trim your replies (including this sentence and everything below it) and adjust the subject line as necessary. To unsubscribe or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ To contact only the PCTT Mod Squad, write to: pctechtalk-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ---------------------------------------------------------------