Creating Partition Map - How Long

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Creating Partition Map - How Long

I purchased and external firewire HD and want to partition it to separate machine backups.

I'm creating 4 partition,using the Disk Utility, on a new Iomega 750GB HD and the message states that its Creating Partition Map and it's been running for a long time.

I'm going to let it continue, but am wondering if I can interrupt it?

How long should this take? There isn't any disk activity going on.

-jP

iMac 1.25 G4 and MBP 2.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, Mac OS X (10.5), iLife '08

Posted on Jul 15, 2008 6:46 PM

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Malcolm Rayfield

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Jul 16, 2008 4:19 AM in response to James Palmer2

It should take less than a minute.

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Jul 16, 2008 5:15 AM in response to Malcolm Rayfield

So if I've left it alone for a few hours, something's wrong, but who do I contact?

How would you go about resolving the issue?

FYI - I closed the process, got a bunch of errors that I didn't write down, but ended up erasing and will start over tonight.

-Regards

-jP

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macjack

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Jul 16, 2008 5:15 AM in response to James Palmer2

Partitioning the drive really is an eye blink, so there no sense in letting it go any longer. Stop the process and re-format the drive "Mac OS Extended Journaled". If that doesn't work gett in touch with the drive manufacturer,

-mj

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Answer 4

Jul 16, 2008 6:00 AM in response to macjack

THX

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