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

[Crandon David]

I was doing the same thing, but after a couple of hours I forced  
quit. The I just refromatted but without the extra special stuff .

David


On Jul 19, 2005, at 12:36 PM, revDAVE wrote:

> On 7/15/05 1:41 PM, "Rick Gordon" <rick at rickgordon.com> wrote:
>
>
>> 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)?
>>
>
>
> Not sure - but force quitting this sounds dangerous.
>
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