[X4U] Disk Utility Stalled? 8x Wipe Taking Forever

[Kirk McElhearn]

On Jul 15, 2005, at 10:41 PM, Rick Gordon wrote:

> Now (the next day) the progress bar is midway through "preparing to  
> write random data to disk", and I haven't seen any bar movement for  
> several hours, although no error is being reported.
>
> Does this sound normal? If not, is there a risk of further damage  
> to the drive if I were to force quit and go back to plan A (zeroing  
> reformat, operating the drive with non-critical data, and seeing  
> how stable its response was)?

You didn't say how big the disk is, but, yeah, these processes are  
very, very long.


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