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. :-)
12 hours? I can't believe that lack of a GUI was responsible for that! I formatted my 250 gig drive under DOS 7 (Win98) and it took about an hour. I'd guess hardware was the issue. *Something* besides the OS, anyway.
