From: steve.c.marchant@btopenworld.com   
      
   I've done this a few times now on my standby pc, and each time it takes   
   nearly an hour. The drive is 1 gig.  It coasts merrily along displaying the   
   percentage   
    progress, until it stops and announces something like, "searching for   
   allocation unit..", and a number, eg. 31250. It sticks there for ages before   
   moving on, and then stopping again as above for ages, etc., until it finally   
   completes the format. My other pc formats much quicker, without the searches   
   for "allocation unit number...". Anybody know the reason for these long   
   pauses, and if anything can be done to speed up the format?   
   steve   
      
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