I use partition magic and it does the job in a jiffy. I set up a 300 gbyte drive a couple of months ago (three partitions) in about an hour and I went back to make changes a couple of times as well.

Don

Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
On May 18, 2006, at 5:00 AM, Mark Roberts wrote:

I always partition and format my disks from a command line interface:
GUI's are for wimps!

Formatting a 120G drive in FAT32 from DOS under WinME took nearly 12 hours.
Formatting the same drive in FAT32 on Mac OS X took 40 minutes.

I'll take the GUI any time. :-)

Godfrey



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